The world is a mirror of me. From my eyes, from my perspective, I see what I’ve created, what I want to see. I only see things because they’re relevant to me, I only have interactions, because they’re interactions of things I already have. When I want coffee, I go into the coffee shop. That’s what’s on my mind: I want coffee—that’s all I desire in that moment; that’s my motivation. When I go in, I don’t see anything on the menu; I don’t see any of the people sitting around; I don’t see what the people look like, I just see that they have Peruvian Organic, Chase American, that they’re almost out of sugar and so forth—and only the things that I directly wanted or related to me and then. I leave the coffee shop and that’s all I see. I only take in to feed this side of the mirror. I could be noticing the edges of things. Self or society—the difference is merely angle of reflection. Through your words, I see your world. Through our world, you see my words. And with this we realize our ability to change self or society with those words.
When I speak out loud at all, I reflect myself onto the world. The public through the narrative—the narrative or the personal or the person writing—is kind of a tool that the writer sees truth through. And it’s only truth because the writer has set it up so, in the way they see things. And when the writer comes to a personal revelation, a redefinition of truth through environmental and worldly influences then that—being fed through the medium of the book—is going to be a realization passed on to the reader—and a public realization. The personal, through publication, has the possibility of attaining public consciousness. Art, our medium of expression draws the spirit beyond the self and into the page—where words mix with public thought and history is born.
We’re publishing a book. We’re putting a collection of different people’s ideas into the world…I guess we’re trying to create a picture for the puzzle which is all these people coming together, but we’re hoping that they would all see, or have the same idea in mind—which is not to describe to me an empty scene, but is to move me, and is to change me, and is to inspire me. And when you are given the opportunity to speak to the entire UC university, what is it that you mean to be saying? Do you want to describe to me what your boyfriend looks like or do you want to open my eyes to something that only you can see?