Identity

Identity was an idea I was interested in when I was starting art school, said a friend, while we were sipping our lukewarm cappuccinos on a hot October afternoon.  Identity - what you are, what anyone is.  IS, right?  And cannot not be.  Well, I'll never forget when I was told by professors and by fellow students, and this was a widespread opinion there, a truism, you might say, that identity is something you create.