Exotic 2

The exotic is the glamour of the different. Of the far, of that which is not me, and of which holds a potential escape.

Like every illusion, it disappears in the appropriate perspective. Looking at the exotic from up close is what shatters the illusion. From up close, every town, every culture, and every human roots in the same basic instincts and essential qualities: the ground of flesh, hunger, pain, and lust, seeded with the still-maturing gifts of mind, joy, and love.