Am I sincere?
Mutual sincerity
is too often heartbreaking. Is my explanation glass to our reality or an image presenting
our likenesses, which I am painting “for us” for myself? That is, is my
“sincerity” only a self-deceit that manages to succeed?
Or does it permit the other to exist outside of my own
imagination, and capable of surprise? Does it free me of this ego-made delusion so
that it refuses to stifle the other
with demands made by my “sincerity?”