Category: The Self-Reliance Project
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Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Pretending
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Missing
Ambiguous loss is the loss we can not see, just as it lingers in the closure we can not find.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Tracing
Tracing is a way to think in stages, and seeing those stages pulls you along in your thinking.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Animating
As an artistic practice, animation is a process of aggregation. But as a life practice, to animate is to awaken.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Helping
It’s time to pierce the routine of the everyday. What else is there to know?
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Waiting
To wait inside is also a chance to go inside—and stay there for awhile.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Admitting
Productivity is a tonic for loss—not a replacement for it—and the work of reconstruction is always brutal.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Assimilating
What becomes of public space when we’re absent from it—when our familiar human constellations cease to exist?
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Reading
Reading is one of life’s great indulgences, even (and especially) if you are stuck inside.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Reciprocating
Reciprocity is not binary—it’s fragmented—like people are, and like life is.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Turning
Turning is a deliberate and conscious act: it’s how we express attentiveness.
Jessica Helfand|The Self-Reliance Project
Walking
Walking is a form of creative trespassing, like tourism for the psyche.
