"My life then was marked with great discord, seven long years of malaise. Although there
was no desire to go back to that anointed but trapped self, there was the tension of
having to shed this self. To have gone back meant a life lost to anxiety, to a constant
dread of not ever finding one’s way home, a life so ill-fitting, I had no choice but
to stay untethered in the new territory where the only fear was the unknown. Consequently,
a technique of attention to be used in and on my daily life (Fisher 9) was needed to do
the work via negativa: work not amongst people or for others but with and for oneself
alone; painful arduous work, isolated, invisible, intimate, valuable only to oneself; work
with the self as prima materia, the subject demanding to be the object of reflection,
relentlessly attended to. Eventually there came a time when having lived long enough at
the periphery, I started to know the periphery. Having painfully attended to my being
there, a different self started to emerge, a self formed within and "of the
periphery.""
—Judy Freya Sibayan, Scapular Gallery Nomad: Beyond the Limits of the
Center and Into One’s Own
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Fully 90% completely or mostly agreed to the statement, “I am proud to be a NSCAD graduate”.
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