The Other Me

The Other Me Jean Foos Paintings

The

Other

Me

In the beginning,

one person, knowing nothing but my own experience. Then I was told things, and I became two people. So then I was two of I. It was a completely unreal world that I was living in. How can I feel grateful that you give to me what I am to you? I comes through, a little.

In moments. And gets pushed back by Other I. Other I gets tired, and goes on smiling, because that I was

is the thing to do. I refuses to play the clown anymore? Which I is that? In the beginning was I, and I

was good. Out of all the other I’s, some are chosen as a

pattern. That is me. I will not let you (or me) make me

dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied up, constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it. It is awesome and responsible to consider one’s world as one’s own

representation. I am not only my brother’s keeper.

I am my brother. The world of persons is as plastic and varied as people themselves. What has been described here is the

world of persons, the one we live in.

I see in you is an image of myself. And what you see in me is an image of you. It is a world of mirrors. It is a useless and obscuring fiction that there is a world. The natural depth of man is the whole of creation. Look at the scope of yourself. Did I ever tell you of the of beauty of cobwebs on a dirty window?

In it, what

But that is another long story. The world as one’s own

representation

seems to be a picture of social and psychological truth. Relaxed

perception sees in itself all things going on. The one who doesn’t notice is the other one — the person among persons.

puppy and my dolls, and to the trees. They don’t confuse me because they listen, and I can say anything I want and they don’t talk back. They go on listening. And then I begin to hear myself and know it’s me.

The oneness of all things is known to l’autre moi. I talk to my

—Kim Rosenfield, Sackett Lake, New York, 2007

The Other Me Jean Foos paintings First Edition of 100 copies printed in November 2007 on the occasion of the exhibition, The Other Me, at Y Gallery, NYC. www.ygallerynewyork.com Images copyright © 2007 by Jean Foos Text copyright © 2007 by Kim Rosenfield Design by Dirk Rowntree All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

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