Journey: a play of identity

Scene 1: Seoul City crowds in the lunch hour
all strolling
all perfect
and perfectly attired.
No, this is not a movie.
This is real.

Rachel as seen in Uncanny Mirror by Mario Klingemann commissioned by Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018

Scene 2: me in the Uncanny Mirror. Yes
that is my identical identity, my oddness
vast forehead, tuft of feathers
and cloudy evanescent self.
I’m lonely. I like her. I want her to be me
(and yet, that’s not my shirt).

Two elegant nuns walking in Seoul

Scene 3: Two young nuns are walking
with a double dose of grace.
I want to look
and love the parallels
the paired serenity
and then revert to being motley me.

This half-formed writing is a travel diary. Photos and words by Rachel McAlpine cc by 2.0; portrait caught in Mario Klingemann’s Uncanny Mirror, Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2.0. (Seoul Art Space — Yeonhui, 8 Sept 2018)