Aide-Mémoire 2 - The Upside Down Direction

Normally used for clarity, a sign shows you which way to go in order to reach your destination. In a world where we are increasingly and constantly bombarded with instructions and means to navigate through life, it has become inevitable that we live and experience through the supply and consumption of persistent, hard-to-dodge instructions from our surroundings. In a sense, our perception and understanding of the world have been reduced to signs, following each and any of them, like there is no way to navigate without them. How do you know if what you feel, follow, understand or express is real and genuine if it is, in fact, or maybe not, a product of manufactured directions?

Life and the world are actually more than our encircling guiding agents suggest. Signs function by efficient guidance through space and time, and therefore prove to neglect the world outside the fabricated straightforward, systematic representation of existence. In fact, you follow what thousands of others followed without choosing your own path. The surrounding instructions rob the opportunity for error and chaos, the source of innovation, new ideas and personality. Maybe these signs don't help us navigate through life after all, as they don't represent (all of) it.

"Maybe in order to gain true perception, you need to follow the upside down direction".

The Upside Down Direction