Day 110

'Layers' Pen and Marker on paper

Analogies are often used to illustrate that which is hard to explain in it's original terms, the use of an analogy gives us something to visualise that makes the situation much easier to grasp, allowing us to then comprehend the notion in it's original terms also. There is one analogy that is used frequently that when I visualise it brings to me to a completely different conclusion than is intended. That analogy being the onion, more specifically how the onion and it's many layers are representative of the depth and complexity of anything ranging from a social or cultural model to a person and the many facets of their personality. The notion that the layers can be peeled back to uncover the multitude of hidden traits, histories, and planes of persona that belong to that which the onion represents. I am under no illusion that society or people for that matter can't have multiply layers, my problem comes from what happens when you actually peel back the layers of an onion. Rather than discover that the onion is infinitely unique, that each new layer identifies something more interesting than the last, that with each layer peeled back the more insight you receive... it all ends in tears.