When given this challenge I found myself dumbfounded. If you asked me to describe a friend, a meadow or a seashell words would roll off the tip of my tongue. However, I can not seem to find a single word to describe myself or a quality I possess. Perhaps, it is my fear or being arrogant or the fact I am too close to my inner workings, but my vocabulary abandoned me.
I decided to take opportunity of this situation and choose a word that describes this experience: enigma. From the Greek root ainos and later ainissesthai, an enigma is defined as “something that baffles understanding or can not be explained.” I am clueless as why this challenge has been so difficult for me to complete. The reason for my inability to find the perfect word is in fact an enigma.
Working within the possibilities of the word, I created a digital piece to reflect aspects within myself, which are arcane, mysterious, and hidden; elements, which are enigmatic to myself and others.
