Creases are always something that I find intriguing. Each line and fold holds a memory. They exist in every medium and everything. In a book each dog-eared corner holds a clue to a memory someone didn't want to lose. We all are observers of creases. We read them like words from the pages of life.
Everything around has creases in it. The little imperfections are evidence of man's meddling. Furrowed fields, man's creation, versus flat plains, mother nature's creation.
Scars and wrinkles are just creases on the skin. The wrinkles on a person's face tell so much about them their personality it's literally written on their faces albeit in a complicated script. Depending on their age it can be like following fresh tracks or tracking down a century old text Hollywood- treasure hunter style. Wrinkles formed from repeated bouts of smiling, deep furrows on the forehead convey concern or anger. Scars are self contained memories. Each one is accompanied by a memory epic, tragic, or mundane, they all have a story. The scar on my knee from falling down on my bicycle when I was just learning to ride, mundane. The one on my friend's hand from being clawed by a tiger, epic. The wandering scars on my brothers arm from the near-fatal crash, tragic.
When paper is folded its memory is altered creating a personality like how our personalities are created from the pattern of wrinkles in the grey matter of our brains. Folding a sheet of paper is applied science fiction. It's a practical way of testing the science fiction idea that a person is defined by their memories and that by implanting an imprint of their memories into another's body they can be cloned; or reincarnated or teleported, the specifics depend on the author but the idea is the same. Folding a piece of paper is just imprinting the memories of something onto the page. Finish the imprint and the flat sheet becomes something else, a simple bird, a mammal with four legs, maybe a complex geometric pattern from the Alhambra.
I believe this needs playful punctuation. I like the subject. It's intriguing. But I feel the need for a more in depth exploration. Some of this needed to be written maybe, but it did not need to be read. Use up all your technical jargon and critical thinking and then go for the throat. Where is this subject connected to you? Where is your character in this essay? I just want you to find more in your subject that is in yourself. Experiment. Creatively, of course.
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