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Feingold Gallery: Eye in Eye Strengths
Feingold Gallery:
Eye in Eye Strengths
The design of this gallery is aimed at encouraging conversation involving both immediate and reflective thought, individual and collective. Rather than starting by reading comments of others, please first put your own immediate thoughts in the on-line forum below. This way, we'll all be able to see how much similarity and difference there is in our initial reactions and interpretations of the images. Then go back to see what others have said about this image and add whatever new thoughts you have as a result of that. More general thoughts about the collection of images and/or this exhibit as a whole are welcome in the on-line forum on the exhibit home page.
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Eye in eye comment
Impression:
Look through the eye to the window of the soul.
Like the saying goes
What ever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger. From over coming adversity we gain strength and for a person suffering from mental illness there is no greater enemy than their own thoughts.
Eye in Eye Strengths
You are absolutely correct for mental illness sufferers "there is no greater enemy" than our own thoughts. I have BPD and PTSD and I think I finally found my strengths when I could no longer hide my illnesses.
eye in eye reaction
I see this as taking ownership of my "disability" which essentially means i am stronger for seeing myself through the eyes of the "normal" ones; for having the courage to apply my drawbacks to the social norm, which is a task requiring strength, and which I believe most "normal" people never really feel compelled to do.
eye in the eye
Waking up and really seeing yourself for the first time.
EYE
"EYE see ME"
Eye in the Eye
Reading between the lines...ie., reading beyond what is obvious...
feeling like ghost in me
the picture put me that there is someone a ghost inside my mind controlling my eyes
look within u then u can
look within u then u can duscover urself.
The inner eye is the real
The inner eye is the real person that is looking thru the eye of an unknown substance that the world sees not being aware that the true life lives locked up inside wanting to be free. This is my world everyday
There is more
Look a little deeper and find that there is always more - even the smaller part of me is valid, has a voice and sees just as much
Eyes directed inwards
Eyes are for seeing outwards. Concern about one's disabilities and how others perceive them usually direct the eye inwards. The inward pointing eye cannot see what others perceive - but see reality; whether one likes it or not. In some cases the inward eye sees only what it wants to see, or creates a non-real image of that perception. Understanding that one's disabilities are part of one's strength may indeed take time and exercise in perception - but inevitably this realization becomes the reality. It did with me.
Seeing the eye within the
Seeing the eye within the eye brings me to inner thoughs and learning or discovering who you might be. Fiding your strengths and weeknesses. Looking at every aspect of you inner self. The way you think and why you think this way as well as your heart and your emotions trying to peace it all together. Looking at all mental aspects and trying put it all together to understand yourself better. Maybe fixing things along the way. That is what i think when look at the inner eye now the outer one i get the sense of blindness and misunderstanding. Failing to see the truth which leads up to all the inner soul searching.
Mirrors and reflection.
Makes me think of a
My favorite. Maybe
When any part of yourself is
Strength emerges from
One and the same?
The dawning of a new
When we open ourselves up,
Waking up and really seeing
This image raises the
Eye in eye comment
Eye in eye comment
(posted for a friend)
Always seeing from two viewpoints.
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