For Kevin,

I read something interesting that I thought pertained to your video from last week. It's from "Looking at the Overlooked" by Norman Bryson, pages 144-145.

"When looked at from outside the limited cocoon where they belong, the scissors and combs, books and papers, all the effects  that weave the warmth and familiarity of a personal habitat, at once appear pathetic and lost: they have the look of dead men's clothes. Though to each user they are unique, bearing an individual accent and all the distinctness of personal scent, when glimpsed from outside the nest of habit woven by the body itself they are simply junk, personal waste. And not just the personal effects, all of the artifacts surrounding the body share this fate of imminent reversion to debris. Though the forms of such things as plates, jugs, pitchers, glasses and so forth are robust enough to withstand the centuries, individual avatars of the forms are fragile to a degree: attrition, breakage and decay soon convert thenoble forms to shards and rubble. The immediate bodily cocoon must constantly renew itself to keep at bay the forces of dispersal and ruin. It is subject to a law of entropy that no form can survive. In the fate of the objects around the body is read the body's own creatural frailty and imminent demise. And even before entropy gets to the objects and destroys them, they threaten the uniqueness of the individual and the distinctness of a personal outline. Persons become exactly interchangeable: since the forms in still life address the generic body, they bypass the personal body; because all human beings are destined to the same actions, of appetite or comfort or hygiene, at this basic level of material existence there is no respect for personhood."

It doesn't have anything directly to do with anxiety, but I was thinking about the personal effects of grooming, and the objects that we use to do so. I thought the ideas of surrounding ourselves with objects that are detritus in order to create a schedule of familiarity and comfort was interesting in relation to your piece.

-Kayl