I most often find myself with a lack of position, more concerned with the interactions or connections of infinity with the reality of a finite life. I am here in an existence, all of which manifests itself in the perception of a fragile mind, a vehicle of flesh, which resides in a “cause-and-effect world.” This instills a need for attachment, understanding, and meaning (purpose). So I place meaning in the work I do (how I function in society), purpose in my attachments and love, and try to make the best of living, while existing in the knowledge of my own mortality. I see purpose as a coping mechanism that I can not live without. It is the meaning I place on my own existence and everyone/everything else’s that makes now, before, and after have value. There is a balance between purpose and doubt, existing within life and death, which makes not knowing the only real answer.
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Jeff Gibbons was born in 1982 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He has lived in Key West and Tampa, Florida, and is currently in the DFW area of Texas, attending graduate school. He is an interdisciplinary artist.