Mental Patience shows us that life can be as simple or as complicated as we make it – and sometimes both, simultaneously. Through observation, reflection, storytelling, and playful comedy, we explore what it means to navigate and confront life’s absurdities that are constantly surrounding us.
Impressionism
Meeting someone for the first time, no matter what the occasion, is awkward. Perhaps this is because so many things are happening in such a brief snippet of time: snap judgements occur within milliseconds; sweaty palms, while we simultaneously try to listen, speak and produce non-verbal cues and slick movements into the mix; all of this, as we primitively study this other person’s facial expressions, often having little clue or control over what our own mug is revealing throughout this clumsy ‘first dance’.