I never explained the concept behind this. It is a self-portrait of me. But it isn't to symbolize ME it is to symbolize something ABOUT me.
I am a... well active environmentalist. PBI sent me on a trip to Churchill Canada, the polar bear capitol of the world last year, and then this GOI sent me on a trip to live on, explore, and learn about climate change on glaciers.
This has kind of put me into a state of mind that I can't explain to almost anyone else. I mean, how much I love glaciers and polar bears, and how afraid I am of losing them to climate change... and how crazy or trapped it makes me feel to see that we are losing them, but have no one listen to me when I say we have to change... it was kind of like me letting lose my frustrations, fear, and feeling of being trapped. (First one is fear, second frustration, and third feeling of trapped, and of course they are all having the same feeling as being trapped, hence the title) I needed away to express myself, and this was the perfect way to do so.
I wrote a poem to go along with it, that I might print and frame with it when I hang it up or something.
At times it feels I’m trapped, but not isolated or alone.
I’m stuck within my head sometimes, unable to make my thought known
Sometimes I’m fighting a battle, with strangers or inside my head
All the time, I wish these voices would drop dead.
I want to tell people things, my worries or thought
But no one listens, leaving me in total distraught
They open their ears, but their minds remained closed
They nod with their heads, but their eyes remained posed.
I scream with my heart and plead with my eyes
But no one takes notice, leaving me to despise
My world of quiet and the loud
And people too naïve or people too proud.
