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Lucy:
Like art materials or music to make meaning from?
Jackie:
That’s actually a really wonderful way of looking at it. So much of this
is being able to hear my own voice instead of my parents’ voice in my
head.
Lucy:
What’s the biggest difference between those voices?
Jackie:
They might talk about everything being us versus them, black and
white, good or bad. But it could be a conversation. When I hear this
capitalist machine of nonstop advertising or noise trying to get us to
buy something, it’s not helpful, but it is, in and of itself, interesting
art material.
Lucy:
If you choose to engage with it and turn it into new ways of seeing or
being. Create with it in dialogue?
Jackie agrees and uses California Governor Gavin Newsom’s trolling of President
Trump as an example.
Jackie:
He’s taking the brainwashing technique of using all caps and using it
to illustrate the absurdity of what people are buying into.
Lucy:
I think that’s what the Existentialists were trying to do with the
Theater of the Absurd. They change the timing and rhythm of the
language. It’s like wake up! Wake up! See the construct!
Jackie:
Yes, that’s it. You wake up and see the construct… It is breaking the
thing that is crippling me.
Breaking the Frame: Aesthetic Encounters with Narrative Practice – Part Three
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2026 Release, p. 25-51.
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