Sacrifice: an offering. Destruction [or] surrender. Something given up or lost. Perdue. Perdu.

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Imitation, or “Mimesis” in Greek, refers to the representation or depiction of reality, most often used to describe how art imitates or mirrors the outer-world.

Plato and Aristotle are prime examples of using mimesis in their work:

Plato’s belief: “True” reality resided in the realm of ideas. Art is the imitation of such.

Aristotle’s belief: Acknowledged the mimetic nature of art. Saw it as a way to better understand the world.

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I take the idea of mimesis, pack its circular airlessness into my fists, and release it when I am finally loved properly. My first “lover” ended in an act of deception. How come men mimic one female for another? And another? And another and still feel he is the decent one?

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Seth Lillet’s work, titled L.A., 1979, reminds me of flowers in a vase halfway through their life. Heads bowed, limbs slouched but comfortable with those who surround. A form of intimacy I, too, feel in the presence of him.

Loving a person can either end in a positive place of surrendering or a negative place. Strong senses of anything, such as the love between two people, or the water the half-dead flowers in the vase share to survive, separate (however this may be perceived), come together, and form a boundless union. The shape of endlessness.