Alexithymia

Trapped by Nathan Sawaya

Maybe you've felt like this before. Or maybe you know someone that feels like this now. There's always a way out, we just sometimes need a little help to find the way.

So the other day I finally got to visiting the lego art exhibition I've been wanting to view. It was very interesting, to say the least. And a little nostalgic, to be reacquainted with a dear childhood toy. The human form figures very heavily in the artist's works, and you begin to realize how amazing it is, when you think how the curves of the human body have been sculpted out of tiny rectangular bricks, making them look like three-dimensional, albeit pixelated, copies of the real thing. And the above piece is perhaps the one that resonated the most with me. Perhaps because the feeling of being trapped is a familiar one.

Would that I could just spill my guts out like that too, without having to resort to words. Wordsmith of sorts I would like to think I am, but when it comes to describing my own feelings it seems words fail me.

There were many fun pieces as well, and other interactive installations, and yummy food that J and I ate. More on that in another post.