sabato 3 novembre 2007
Mirrors
For a long time, I have been startled by the phenomenon that people I know reacted so differently when interacting with different people around them. Recently, however, I've come to meet or better know some people very different to me and I've come to realise that my own behaviour changes rapidly according to theirs. It is a bit similar to (how we always enjoyed as kids) someone being without voice and wispering and suddenly everybody is talking silently. They still send more or less the same messages but the tone is entirely different. Now I could experience the same thing on myself, and on some occasions I hardly recognise myself, suddenly being more straightforward, softer, more aggressive... Now I just wonder how this reaction is balanced... if it is even, so both characters influence the mood of the situation or if one or the other forces itself on the other one? In a sort of hierarchy of moods or attitudes..? Who is the mirror and who the one being reflected?
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Miming is a way of communication, communication is a way to learn new things.
yeah, but there is a part of brain responsible for it, and it can be one's betrayer (named amygdala maybe?). I take up the style of talking very fast if I do not try to stop this process. When I was little, after a few weeks vacation at my aunt's, I learned the southern Lithuanian dialect (which is very funny) and my friends would laugh to death from me when I was back!
The mirroring issue reminds me of one idea I partly realized in photography. The topic was identity, and I made a series of portraits of women in my family, minding that when we look at ourselves, we see many other people, we compare to them or sometimes we might hate the genes we see through. The last part would have been a mirror, and visitor would be asked to look and think what other people they can see in the reflection picture.
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