Bronwyn

When You Can No Longer Find the Essence

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• published: 21 May 2011
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"When You Can No Longer Find the Essence was a performance piece I created for my senior year at Interlochen Arts Academy. The piece itself is about change. The pure white in the beginning represents how we as humans start out as a blank canvas, a clean slate. As we grow and see more of the world, we discover things that we will bring into our own life. We enjoy these things, and want to experience them more and more often. We cover ourselves up, our real selves, the one's we were born as. We forget what it means to be human, and we forget what it means to be individual, and forget to treat ourselves as we were originally meant to be. Eventually, we get to a point where we actually notice how much we've truly changed ourselves. This may be something one can accept, or something they wish to reject. This piece is also representative of how humans take away so much from their natural state. We add on things that are unnecessary for our existence, and by doing so we lose things such as our instinct and our original state of being. This concept is also applicable on a much larger scale, and to the human race as a whole. Society over the years has developed more and more ways to make our lives simpler, without realizing the consequences these actions would have. But, when we realize how we have affected the world, both environmentally and societally, the change has become irreversible. I hope that everyone finds a part of themselves in this piece, because a piece about change is one everyone can relate to. I encourage you to think about where your essence is, and what your change has been. The music is "Radiator" by Aphex Twin, and the filming was done by Keaton Manning.