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Published: 2006-02-05 00:53:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 108; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 1
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A Crucifix mounted on a grave with two Greek capitals inscribed: Alpha and Omega.An age-old cliché, but with eternal value. It always raises the question: "Is there a
Life after Death?" Anything that starts, will have an ending. Who made THAT up?
What is actually starting; what marks the end?
The background of the crucifix has a contrasting colour, which is to emphasize
contrasting ideas with regard to the philosophical issue of life and death. Philosophy
by the way never has the ultimate answers.
The Beginning of a new idea usually marks the End of the old one. Philosophy is a
Continuous Process. It never stops: There will always be an Alpha-2, succeeding the
late Omega-1!
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I think you're sincere alright dude, and you have a few cool pics alright but just between you and me, it doesnt matter how well you learn the symbols and codes of the visual language, chances are a buyer may have no idea about any of them and might just like it anyway. hmm, fancy reading a big long story? do i fancy writing it? ah sure why not?
i was living in a corridor room in a hotel staff house a few years ago, lots of different people from different countries thrown together by the simple fact of working there. great fun. anyway i had a room mate who was not exactly arty and was very very tidy so i tended to paint in the corridor, since everybody hung out there anyway. so i was painting this canvas, the second of a pair (my girlfriend wanted something red and black for her wall) and really injoying it too.
while i was sitting there(over the course of a few days) a mass of people walked by and said stuff like, ooh nice, looks like hell. oh pretty, like a chinese landscape painting. oh look at that guy, whats he doing to the eyeball?!thats cool... bark of a tree or something? and blah blah blah (lovely people really) until when it was just about finished and i was packing up to go to work a big, shall we say intellectally challenged but very very nice swedish jock came along and stared at it for about five minutes while i was getting ready and eventually said ...you know, it looks really nice, but i just dont see anything in it.
didnt matter, he liked it anyway. everybody who sees it seems to like it but my gf who owns it only found the other day what it actually was meant to be when i told her... shes owned it for two years now. can you guess what it is? :thumb29146650: if the thumb doesnt come up its the red thing in my scrapbook. (crappy foto, i had to stand on a swivel chair)
anyway, i did it for my own pleasure and to express my own feelings about a particular thing. other people respond to it, i believe, because it has a resonance of sincerity. thats all you need. oh and it should look cool too
peace
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Hi there (Your name is ...?),
You´re more or less the 2nd deviant, actualy telling me to refrain from
(lenghty) explanations of any of my (submitted) pieces of work. And you
know what? I guess, both of you are right. It all has to do with having fun,
while making a painting, a photograph, whatever. And if there´s someone
out there, who actually likes my work, that´s fine. But it should never
be the primary driver, though.
Well, I shall keep that in mind.
Great advice! Appreciated!
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Philosophy may not have the ultimate answers but it asks the ultimate questions, moreso than anything else. I like this, but I wonder, had you not given me that little snippet of a prelude, would I have pieced together your intentions of this work. I think not. More and more I have been questioning any outside knowledge outside of a work of art and whether or not it hinders or allieviates the work. I don't know where the fine line between being pretentious and sincere lies. It is one thing to display a work on its own and have it speak on its own, its another for the artist to do so.
There's nothing profound in what I just said.
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Hello Travis (Just guessing at your real name, if you allow me to do so),
Thank you very much for reacting on my work; and so sincere!
Many times have asked myself whether to add some accompanying text.
People react very differently, so it appears. I like my work to be conceptual,
although I realise, that I do not always succeed, so I add a few aiding lines.
It´s a constant struggle, but it remains most challenging to me. As is trying to
capture a thought, an idea, a scientific, philosophical or religious item into a
work of art in a metaphorical way. Once the picture tells the story by itself,
I know I (may) have succeeded. It´s a long road, and I might not even reach
my goal, but I get a lot of pleasure just out of trying (My Process of Learning).
I leave it up to you to be my Judge: Am I Pretentious, or Sincere?
Your Honor ... What´s your Verdict?
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