Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
meeting in the third space with people you can trust to talk about what really matters in life, welcome to paradoxis
communityphilosophy.substack.com/p/paradoxis
📍 it, it's okay. You know, and I think this is what one needs to learn. That, that, the, the ego that tells you that you have to be in control of it and that you are, you're number one, and that you're competing with other artists or other philosophers, and that you have to look good in the room, and that you have to try and understand everything or not look stupid in a gallery.
Whatever those things are that, that drive you to, to fit those social norms, you have to leave that at the door. You know, you cannot let that, um, influence the way that you go about a process, otherwise you're just doing it for show and you're just performing another role.
I love messiness and tension and understanding that this is life. This tension is life, and but I also understand that so many of us want to resolve that because it's a precarious place, it's a vulnerable place, it's a difficult place.
We, we can have a performative vulnerability, so we're, we're open to others' idea, we're, we're humble in public.
But you know these kind of people who are humble all the time, but they're really not. I mean, we have a society now where everybody's supposed to be an influencer or something, and that's, it's not gonna be a very functional society.
So this is, is also in a bigger context our, our performance, our artwork is about recognizing roles rather than saying, " that we should all be authentic, you don't want most people around you to be authentic with you, to be quite honest. You wanna carefully choose those.
meeting in the third space with people you can trust to talk about what really matters in life, welcome to paradoxis
communityphilosophy.substack.com/p/paradoxis
📍 it, it's okay. You know, and I think this is what one needs to learn. That, that, the, the ego that tells you that you have to be in control of it and that you are, you're number one, and that you're competing with other artists or other philosophers, and that you have to look good in the room, and that you have to try and understand everything or not look stupid in a gallery.
Whatever those things are that, that drive you to, to fit those social norms, you have to leave that at the door. You know, you cannot let that, um, influence the way that you go about a process, otherwise you're just doing it for show and you're just performing another role.
I love messiness and tension and understanding that this is life. This tension is life, and but I also understand that so many of us want to resolve that because it's a precarious place, it's a vulnerable place, it's a difficult place.
We, we can have a performative vulnerability, so we're, we're open to others' idea, we're, we're humble in public.
But you know these kind of people who are humble all the time, but they're really not. I mean, we have a society now where everybody's supposed to be an influencer or something, and that's, it's not gonna be a very functional society.
So this is, is also in a bigger context our, our performance, our artwork is about recognizing roles rather than saying, " that we should all be authentic, you don't want most people around you to be authentic with you, to be quite honest. You wanna carefully choose those.
