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    • HOME
    • about
    • WORK
      • Paradise Series
      • Misplaced Installations
      • Misplaced Photos
      • Misplaced Fiber works
      • Dear Mind Series
      • Mental Narratives Photos
      • Mental Narratives Books
      • Mental Narratives Linen
      • Mental Narratives Thread
      • Mental Narratives Paint
      • Mental Narratives Collage
      • Quilt Series
      • Painting Series
      • I am an Immigrant Series
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laura villarreal

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  • HOME
  • about
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    • Paradise Series
    • Misplaced Installations
    • Misplaced Photos
    • Misplaced Fiber works
    • Dear Mind Series
    • Mental Narratives Photos
    • Mental Narratives Books
    • Mental Narratives Linen
    • Mental Narratives Thread
    • Mental Narratives Paint
    • Mental Narratives Collage
    • Quilt Series
    • Painting Series
    • I am an Immigrant Series
    • Stitched Series
    • Small works - paper
  • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
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MENTAL NARRATIVES series: BOOK pages

  

Since we are born, our mind is filled with information, like a recorder that never stops, it does not run out of batteries, nor it breaks. It is always recording. This recording comes from what we are taught; our environment; our parents and what we read and experience as a child. 

I believed everything I was told. 

But as I grow towards adulthood, all this information is questioned, and I enter into a new relationship with my mind, trying to de-clutter and learning new ways of relating to it. The innocence of the child is gone, and I am left with an empty tunnel, which needs to be filled with new information. 

In Mental Narratives, I approach, through elements from my growing up as a child, this new relationship between my adult mind and my new self. The brain is re-wired and this new connections fill the tunnel. Old beliefs are gone and I only get to keep the ones that serve me now. I could call this a poetic portrait of my mind.

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