Trans Caucasus | Unfinished
In Western languages, the term Trans Caucasus is translation of the Russian “zakavkazie” meaning "the area beyond the Caucasus Mountains" but the words are changing. Caucasus was the land of Mountains, Honour, Power, changes and Miracles. How to unlove these mountains, how to forget our Honour, how to survive the changes and how to believe in Miracle? These questions are bothering the Caucasus hundreds of years.
Mountains were captured, honour ran, power was lost. Changes are coming and miracles are becoming more unbelievable. Here in the land of strong Mountains and strong men the idea that a man can transform into a woman can be perceived as miracle. The word "transsexual" sounds mythical to the Caucasian ear, but the fact is that in Caucasus the number of men willing to become a woman has increased during the past five years. Until 2002 in Armenia and until 2000 in Azerbaijan and Georgia a people could be imprisoned for any homosexual contact. Today they can’t lose their freedom for this miracle, but in order to avoid harassment they must hide away from society.
Monologue to me
My body has a sex. But I am not only my body. My mind has no sex. My soul has no sex. The people who are living only as a body maybe can’t understand me. From their point of view they can see and realize only the other points. That’s why a lot of us are thinkers and religious people. But when we are changing our points, we are also changing our points of view. From my point of view all “normal” people are the slaves of their sex. The body is the only one of three elements of human. And the only this one has a sex. I think that the human sex is one of the extremeness of our being. We always forget that there is no up or down, there is no right or left, there is no day or night and there are no men or women, because all these extremenesses are death and they have no relation with our life. We just made these words to make the life easier to understand, because life is too much difficult for us. It is too much difficult, because it is not for understanding. Maybe my words are also too much for understanding, but they enough to feel. If I close your eyes, maybe you can’t feel the difference between your wife and me. You are right. Maybe my words are disgusting for your ears. But believe me. In general there is no difference between up and down, left and right, day and night, man and woman. Love is higher than our bodies. It’s only transport to the higher instances. When you wear the clothes of Santa, you don’t become to a Santa. There is no Santa. When you born as a man, it doesn’t mean that you are a man. There is no man. There is only love. The body is given by your parents as your name and your first trousers. Do you like your name? Do you ever want to change it? But when you will change your names, I’ll never beat you. So answer me why you are beating me, when I’m changing given things, which I don’t want to have? Why there are no communities of people who changed their names? Because in changing of names there is no fear of death. But when you change your sex, you will never have a child. And there will be no human on the earth at more. This is dangerous isn’t it? This is idiotism. Simple fears can turn the progress of humanity to the wrong way. All we are afraid of death. And all we are afraid of homosexuals. The simple fears don’t let people feel total power of love. I think that the love is the only way to live. You are photographing me now. You will photograph Georgia tomorrow. What you will do after Georgia? You haven’t access to Azerbaijan because of your citizenship. And your project will be unfinished. A lot of projects are stopped and unfinished here, because men are making war and not love here. They are afraid of love and afraid of each other. Trans Caucasus | Unfinished
In Western languages, the term Trans Caucasus is translation of the Russian “zakavkazie” meaning "the area beyond the Caucasus Mountains" but the words are changing. Caucasus was the land of Mountains, Honour, Power, changes and Miracles. How to unlove these mountains, how to forget our Honour, how to survive the changes and how to believe in Miracle? These questions are bothering the Caucasus hundreds of years.
Mountains were captured, honour ran, power was lost. Changes are coming and miracles are becoming more unbelievable. Here in the land of strong Mountains and strong men the idea that a man can transform into a woman can be perceived as miracle. The word "transsexual" sounds mythical to the Caucasian ear, but the fact is that in Caucasus the number of men willing to become a woman has increased during the past five years. Until 2002 in Armenia and until 2000 in Azerbaijan and Georgia a people could be imprisoned for any homosexual contact. Today they can’t lose their freedom for this miracle, but in order to avoid harassment they must hide away from society.
Monologue to me
My body has a sex. But I am not only my body. My mind has no sex. My soul has no sex. The people who are living only as a body maybe can’t understand me. From their point of view they can see and realize only the other points. That’s why a lot of us are thinkers and religious people. But when we are changing our points, we are also changing our points of view. From my point of view all “normal” people are the slaves of their sex. The body is the only one of three elements of human. And the only this one has a sex. I think that the human sex is one of the extremeness of our being. We always forget that there is no up or down, there is no right or left, there is no day or night and there are no men or women, because all these extremenesses are death and they have no relation with our life. We just made these words to make the life easier to understand, because life is too much difficult for us. It is too much difficult, because it is not for understanding. Maybe my words are also too much for understanding, but they enough to feel. If I close your eyes, maybe you can’t feel the difference between your wife and me. You are right. Maybe my words are disgusting for your ears. But believe me. In general there is no difference between up and down, left and right, day and night, man and woman. Love is higher than our bodies. It’s only transport to the higher instances. When you wear the clothes of Santa, you don’t become to a Santa. There is no Santa. When you born as a man, it doesn’t mean that you are a man. There is no man. There is only love. The body is given by your parents as your name and your first trousers. Do you like your name? Do you ever want to change it? But when you will change your names, I’ll never beat you. So answer me why you are beating me, when I’m changing given things, which I don’t want to have? Why there are no communities of people who changed their names? Because in changing of names there is no fear of death. But when you change your sex, you will never have a child. And there will be no human on the earth at more. This is dangerous isn’t it? This is idiotism. Simple fears can turn the progress of humanity to the wrong way. All we are afraid of death. And all we are afraid of homosexuals. The simple fears don’t let people feel total power of love. I think that the love is the only way to live. You are photographing me now. You will photograph Georgia tomorrow. What you will do after Georgia? You haven’t access to Azerbaijan because of your citizenship. And your project will be unfinished. A lot of projects are stopped and unfinished here, because men are making war and not love here. They are afraid of love and afraid of each other.
2010-05-27 20:32:52 UTC
