should the title of a work *complement* what one can perceive with their own body? -- i really like this approach, because of how imaginative it can get. but the problem i have is that i tend to wildly associate things that are not really relatable for too many other people. in the past i have conceptualized this approach for myself as especially open and indeterminate, but perhaps in the end i can't really avoid the fact that i WILL be imposing my own interpretation of my own work. maybe there is no way around it, and with this approach, i am just somewhat nesting it (or even hiding it ha!) in abstraction. so in turn this approach may appear somewhat inflated - or perhaps even worse: as pretentious, because of how detached it may appear from IRL, as well as what is immediately materially there. for people who are comfortable with the unknown/irrational/etc, this can be very soothing and nice and sometimes even be conciousness-expanding (talking of myself), but for people who come to an exhibition and who experience abstraction as something they have internalized as a gate-keeper, this approach is doing the absolute opposite of being inclusive, or open-ended. hm!

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