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by Darryl S. Warren  

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Fleeting Glimpse Of Time

Our world is one of increasing complexity, with our technology offering more information at our fingertips than ever imagined. Previous generations and civilizations would marvel at all that is available before the common person, not only for the volume, but the level of information available. There is little excuse for those connected to say that they are not informed, or that they do not know of what is happening in our world, for it is all here for the asking.

But for every answer there is a question that reveals not all is as clear-cut as we would like it to be. The reasons behind our actions or of those larger scenarios in the world are fraught with convoluted intricacies that underscore a necessity to look beneath the surface. Sometimes, for all that we look, it only leaves more questions, out technology and cumulative knowledge revealing how little we know.

So while we attempt to compartmentalize, rationalize, quantify and qualify our existence we have obscure aspects that cannot or at least have not been able to fully see. It is these aspects of life that are obscure to us, visible yet not clarified to a degree that we would like. The interpretation of this murkiness can sometimes only be explained or translated via literal means, and fashion acknowledges that in kind. Designers such as Peter Som and Vera Wang had blurred florals within their collection. The slurring of imagery is just enough to let us know what it I but remains incomplete in its clarity. Ducky Brown had some abstract prints that were also nebulous while Zimmerman's cloud prints also held vagueness in its execution. Yeohlee had a different take on the emotional degradation of the thought process in the form of a print of written scrawls overtaking itself into a sea of black. The psychological commentary is ripe for speculation of the thought process losing clarity as it runs over itself.

Perhaps this is where some can relate. The volume of what we are and the pace at which we are living it is running over itself. The experience of life becomes a bit of a blur that we try to make sense of, and not always can we capture its essence as much as its speed as our understanding becomes fleeting in the face of the enormity of all that there is.  And thus the best way to express it is to catch it like in flight for us to muse over.

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