Challenge the Norm

Have you ever noticed that in order to identify something, first a thing must be known? So … who’s the knower?I’ve been thinking about how we interpret our experiences and how we interpret history. And, I realized that if we have a posture that is looking for some meaning, then we are potentially missing the application of the everyday experiences all around us.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

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Have you ever thought about the effects of your choices?

I don’t mean in the classic ‘bad’ way. I mean, the actual physical effects that ripple out of us at every moment of choice, or intention.

Looking at some of the interpretations of quantum mechanics - and specifically at the occurrence of superposition. I think that the implications that thinking about these events lends to what the consequences of human choice might have on a scale more grand than any of us could possibly imagine.

Our world and our experience is so interconnected. Our choices affect the world and others in ways we might not ever imagine - and I don’t mean for good or ill, I just mean that it’s a fact. We are simply connected.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

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I’ve learned that strength is something that I both have more of than I think I do, and I can find it within myself more often than not.

I don’t think we ought to necessarily be people of seclusion: I’ve just learned that I have within me much of what I need.

I also believe that the same is true for you. Look to what you love and be curious about it.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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I’ve missed a few episodes & I’m so sorry about that.

Part of life is having to roll with the punches and trying to keep going even when it seems impossible.

For me, be able to keep moving meant learning to let go.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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Do you ever feel like giving up?

That’s such a vague question, right? “Do you ever think about giving up?”

But, when I hear it, I think of something specific. I think of this direction that I want to go with my life: I think of this thing that I want to become. And, I don’t really know how to define it but I know there’s a direction; I know what my desires are; I know what’s in me trying to become reality.

And in the past I’ve believed that I’ve had to just ‘fit a mold,’ and just become something that is ‘expected of me.’

But, I no longer believe that that’s the appropriate way forward.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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One time I had an idea that I wanted to start getting up early and giving myself at least an hour in the morning to make a cup of coffee, maybe go for a walk, maybe just sit down; but, giving myself some time where I can have some uninterrupted ‘thinking time’ - time to myself.

And, I thought, man, this would be so cool. And, at first I just thought the novelty was what I needed: just this thing in my life.

But, then I started incorporating it and I started realizing that the things that I want to commit myself to - no matter how seemingly mundane or unique to just me - they’re like these little parts of myself that are speaking to me in this perfect little way that makes me want to commit to it.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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When I think about myself I sometimes have a tendency to only think about myself as “I could be” or as “I could’ve been;” And, I sometimes struggle to think of how “I am.”

I think the question, “who are you?” might be one of the most difficult questions to answer sometimes. But, something I think is really important is for us to look for the best in ourselves and not just in others.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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Has anyone ever told you not to rush into something? Not to go in unprepared? Or, maybe people are just saying that you’re being recklyss if you jump into something too quickly.

The thing is, ever single person who has ever told me that is living a life that I do not want to copy or emulate in any way. So, I think we ought to take a different approach and think about our relationship to fear in a different way and start to learn to believe in ourselves.

Because, often times overcoming our fears is just a distraction from getting started.

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

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Have you ever had the feeling - maybe directly or indirectly - or maybe just sort of the sense that something was bad just for the very fact that you wanted it. Something about your desire for something makes that thing bad; or, that thing is corrupt; or, it’s not worthy of your desire for some reason.

I recently read something that said that people are convinced that their desires are just ‘bad’ because of who they are: something about their nature means that they must desire things that aren’t good for them.

But … isn’t the opposite true?

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I believe that everyone deserves to be seen.

Everything I do and create is an extension of who I am, and this show and my photography work are very closely related.

Follow me on instagram @natestvns, and check out my portfolio and blog at www.natestvns.com

To learn more about the show, you can follow on instagram as well as the website.

To get in touch, drop us a line.

I’ve been convinced that I’m supposed to be perfect.

In fact, I believed for a long time that every single little thing that I did had to be held to a standard of perfection. Not only is it a standard that isn’t achievable, but it’s a standard that doesn’t exist or present itself in nature. Yet we tend to accept perfection as a ‘given’ and acceptable standard.

But, I think that if there’s anything influencing a norm that inhibits meaningful relationship with ourselves and with others, then it needs to be removed. x

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