Accessories take advantage of different versions of ourselves

The first piece I wrote for the image was about my love for hats. It is a love that tracks on my cotton and wide wing hat that I used when I was 6 years old, probably for the gap, which had a great radiant sunflower from my forehead. In the photos, when I used it, it always seemed happier. I can think of several dear accessories that I have had over time. In high school, the hanging earrings defined me: especially ring earrings (gold gold, silver, those with white hearts hanging from them). I felt sexier for them. Then there was the “evil ring”: metal carving, rose from my index finger like a temple and opened at the top like a box, the type of things that people generally use to store, say, let's say values (Even if there were drugs, there were holes at the base of the ring, so it was not practical). It was the first thing I bought when moving to New York City for the University, manifesting a more avant -garde version of myself.

An accessory is an opportunity for fantasy, to gently try a new atmosphere or an aspect: it is a suggestion, an accent, a little risk. This was especially the case when it reached the age of majority. But in truth, I feel that I have never stopped reaching the age of majority. Are we not always treading new phases and roles in life?

My last experiment has been a pair of exaggerated cat's sunglasses, scratched in rainbow colors. My partner got them for $ 5 from the sale of a neighbor. When I gave them to me, I placed them on the dressing table next to the door, so that the next time I went for a walk I ended up grabbing them (I have to protect my genetically predisposed macular degeneration!). I had not seen how they really seemed to me until I saw a reflection of myself in the window of a car, and I thought I looked crazy. A block later, I received an enthusiastic complement from a stranger – I love your sunglasses! – That surprised me and encouraged me. I kept using them, fed by compliments (on multiple average in an exit), until the sunglasses that I initially found too ridiculous to use became part of me. Just a few months ago, I made my friends return to the Disneyland Hellscape, after we already left the park, when I realized that I had left the sunglasses in Rainbow in the Roger Rabbit Toon Spin car.

This problem explores accessories as a time travel form, either through the collection of jewels of his grandmother or a night dance. For many, accessories are a means to reinvent and enter a new self, one more true. They take advantage of different versions of ourselves; They help open them. Together they form a colorful timeline of what it feels like to continue changing and growing.