“ACCORDING TO PLATO, we live chained inside a dark cave. We’re chained so all we can see is the back wall of the cave. All we can see are the shadows that move there. They could be the shadows of something moving outside the cave. They could be the shadows of people chained next to us. 
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. 
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. 
The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. 
The camera obscura. 

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What they don’t teach you in art school. How you’re still always trapped. 
How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.