Origin Story
There's a saying now attributed to Aristotle that goes something like this:
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Sum of Our Parts takes after this phrase, with the belief that while every single one of us is born whole, life can sometimes chip away at that wholeness. Many of us come to recognize this at some point in life — perhaps as a result of feeling empty, unfulfilled, or lacking — and then spend the rest of our lives trying to get back what we lost: the capacity to desire and be desired, love and be loved, to learn, create, play, and be(come).
This site is an intimation of that journey back to wholeness, because even though we are and have always been whole, it takes some reacquainting and playing with some of those lost parts — the good, the bad, and the ugly — before we can embrace and re-integrate them, and thus, feel whole again. The writings featured here are an exploration and expression of those parts.
We are all multi-faceted beings, consisting of many parts, like the twelve faces of a dodecahedron. Some sides are regularly exposed to light and love, while others dwell in the shadows.
Here, is a place of catharsis, where our many parts, faces, and sides can come out to play.
“Dodecahedron” by Mark Ryden, photo from Kasmin Gallery