For me it has come to the emblem for me to get it, and what I get is that I don't really get it but that's okay. I tried to get it when I wrote my statement of purpose but I didn't quite get there. Using visual rhetoric to help teach my son is only one aspect of my mystory. When I look at this maze I see my parents - searching for a way out of their lives and going to the desert. I see myself searching for a way out of that desert. I see my son's mind and myself trying to put together the puzzle of his mind.
I see controlled chaos that fits together in one package
That is me. That is my life.
I kept waiting to "get it" with this project. I recognized patterns with searching, mystery, communication, and place - but no straight lines - they are all webbed around one another - like a maze.
In high school I was selected for this class called honors seminar. It was ten kids picked from the entire school and the goal of the class was that by the end of the year we would have a belief system that we had formed through religious and philosophical studies. We spent the entire year reading and trying to formulate our thoughts - classify ourselves as some sort of religion - which for me was so appropriate because a lot of what my parents were leaving when they got to the desert was their catholic upbringings - which left me growing up with almost no religion at all. This is not at all uncommon where I come from.
At the end of the class, all I knew was that I didn't know. There is so much to know, and the complexity of everything is so great, I never felt I could come up with one name that encompasses it all. So, I called myself agnostic. That is essentially what I am doing here with mystory. I'm saying I don't know yet.
I've learned about myself that I like to try to find an answer as quickly as possible - that's why practically all of my pages in mystory I try to reach some sort of conclusion. But for me there just aren't any.
Rather than come up with any answers with mystory, I have come up with a series of questions. And that's okay....