#regimentation

Asim Ali, ‘Imprisoned minds’, Telegraph India

The workday begins. Enterprise. Caravel Films. 1948. Internet Archive

Cannon fodder. Comrade Gulliver. 1936.

In many ways, we are captives in our own minds. My ongoing series is about the day-to-day claustrophobic environment that forms mental and physical walls we create for ourselves. These walls impose limits on our thinking, stifling our behavior and creativity, and constraining our sense of self and perception of reality. My work explores the notions of confinement, regimentation, and repression through visual imagery. By making this body of work, I confront the desire to live up to social expectations that entrap many of us, thereby examining how we can break down the walls in which we imprison ourselves. I am drawn to the lines, shapes, and forms of architecture, and how they echo the uniform and regimented structure of the conditions for thinking. By using architecture as a metaphor, deconstructing its structural elements, and layering them, I enhance the effect of the repressive and claustrophobic atmosphere. In short, architecture metaphorically suggests my attempt at controlling chaos in a controlled space(s). Balancing on the edge of the real and the unreal, making new structures out of already-existing vernacular and stagnant buildings, and employing radical framing, I build an imagined reality. These images communicate the mental experience of the void, withdrawal, and suffocation.

I’m not sure about you, but I happen to not like certain things??? I mean, sometimes I do wanna share my “negative” feelings towards characters and such, and it’s normal, and also? unproblematic as long as you tag it correctly. So please stop pushing for this toxically-positive realm within fandom, because it’s fake and it’s confining.

SOURCE : Instagram : @cardiganwelshcorgi #wales , #welsh , #corgi , #newworldorder, #regimentation , #rulers & #systemofgovernment . (at Kent Mountain Centre, Wales)

Dynamic Med Notes (1 hour 10 min): x7 shoulders x6 fidgeting x2 anger/irritation arising innumerable arisings of fear and frustration and depression

“Sticky” or Absorptive Hobbies  Not looking at things like Facebook/work email Spend time outside Try to steer clear of staring at a computer screen. Having weekends Charting out a schedule for free time - I have a  tendency to let everything drop which inevitably leaves me feeling like I didn’t DO anything during my free time. Some amount of lazing is great, but total lazing makes me feel like I didn’t quite relax enough, as odd as that sounds. Having an intention to not think of work stuff and to relax