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reinforcing a new cadence within a perspective of exile:

That is, postmodern awareness helps us consider that there is no "given reality" behind our several constructs, but even our presumed given reality is itself a rhetorical construct, whether of the cold war, or consumer capitalism, or the "free world," or male hegemony, or whatever. An awareness of this reality about "world" and about "self" opens the way to liminality that permits transformation of all those "givens."
- Walter Brueggemann

for me, this happens to mean that:

my increasingly postmodern lenses reveal that the modern "given reality" in which i have grown up has been manipulated, degredated, and outdated as well as passive and inoculated within my current "reality" to the point that i must envision a new (and at the same time old) personal (and communal) construct. in my current state of psysiological and ideological liminality, colors are emerging on the canvas in vibrant, fresh ways that present intriguing, and yet "odd" possibilties.