The performance doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to hold your attention.
The ABSURDITY is the point.
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The Elephant in the Room is not hidden. It is collectively ignored. The weight does not disappear.
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We are all subjected to injustice in different ways. We are all implicated in systems bigger than us. A weight we carry once we see clearly.
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For a project called WHAT WE CARRY: Effigies for the Weight of Humanity perhaps “woke” is less a slogan and more a burden. A weight we carry once we see clearly. You can’t unsee what you’ve seen. You can’t unknown what you know. Once you’re awake, you’re awake.
Read Dispatch 003: Woke link in bio
So refreshing!!!!
When did “being aware” become a threat? When did “paying attention” become partisan?
Why awareness feels heavier than ignorance. Why empathy gets rebranded as extremism.
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Not all power is real. Some of it is constructed, and sustained by belief.
The moment it is seen clearly it begins to shift.
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This work emerged from observing what people carry, and how it shapes our behavior. The effigies are not abstract. They are reflections of roles we move through, often without realizing it.
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When did we stop questioning authority and start obeying it without hesitation? Some weight does not leave. It becomes part of how we move through the world.
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The Bearer of Passage does not choose what they carry. They inherit it. They move with it. They become shaped by it. Some weights are visible. Most are not.
This is the fourth of four effigies in development. Follow its development
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The pace of information is not neutral. It shapes how we think, what we feel, and how long we stay in reaction.
Stepping back is not disengagement. It’s a choice.
Read the full Dispatch 002: Fake/Real
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The demand to stay informed can become a demand to stay overwhelmed. Information accumulates. Urgency repeats.
You are allowed to step out of the cycle. This is the fourth of four effigies in development. Follow its development www.whatwecarry.art
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We are not being fooled.
We are choosing where to look.
Read the full Dispatch 005: The Elephant in the Room.
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Some weight is chosen.
It arrives through systems, quietly, repeatedly, without pause.
Not everything we carry is personal. Some of it is procedural.
This is the second of four effigies in development. Follow its development
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We are all standing under the same tent watching the show. Trying to decide what is real.
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Power does not always come from substance. Sometimes it’s constructed, layered, reinforced, and performed until it feels real.
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The work is taking form.
This exhibition is being built intentionally from concept to physical form. If you feel connected to the work, you can follow its development.
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WHAT WE CARRY:Effigies for the Weight of Humanity (Yes, It’s a Lot, We Know) is not about one weight. It’s about the systems we move through, the roles we inhabit, and the pressures we carry, often without realizing it. If this resonates with you, you can follow its progress through the link in bio.
WHAT WE CARRY is an exhibition in progress. The transition from idea to object is deliberate.
Form matters. Weight matters. Presence matters. What is carried conceptually will soon exist physically.
Be part of making it real
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What we carry eventually takes form.
The effigies are the next stage of this work.
If you’d like to support their creation, you can do so below.
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The Signs We Carry is an extension of WHAT WE CARRY.
If you’ve made or seen a sign that holds something real, send it. @whatwecarry.bsky.social
This is a living archive of WHAT WE CARRY.
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Each sign carries something.
Frustration. Fear. Demand. Memory.
Not everything we carry is visible.
Sometimes, it has to be held up.
The Signs We Carry is an extension of WHAT WE CARRY.
If you’ve made or seen a sign that holds something real, send it. @whatwecarry.bsky.social
What are you carrying?
We are starting a series called The Signs We Carry. If you’ve made or seen a sign that holds something real, send it. DM us or email us at whatwecarry@whatwecarry.art
A living archive of WHAT WE CARRY in public.
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There was a time when spectacle required substance. Now, the performance often exists on its own.
The question is no longer what is real, but whether we can still tell the difference.
Read Dispatch 001: Spectacle/Substance
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Not everything visible is true.
But it shapes how we move, what we perform, and what the world expects from us.
The exhibition explores the space between spectacle and substance, and the weight that lives there.
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Power can be loud.
Credibility is quiet.
When one replaces the other, what remains is spectacle. Read the Dispatch 001: Spectacle/Substance.
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We carry what we’re told to carry.
Rules. Expectations. Roles.
Not all of them are ours to keep.
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Beautiful!
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We are taught to follow.
We are rarely taught to question.
At what point does obedience replace thought?
Read the full Dispatch 004 - The Power of Sound
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