My dear friend Nicolas, this is the thorn that makes it uncomfortable:
Is it a challenge? should I write one comment to receive another, as if it were a bonus?
If all the readers of this post do not find it interesting or bad they can say it! And if they like it, also!
It is an important statement of concern to consider seriously by all in OPF. I have recently said, in regard to the recent rise of righ wing governments from The Philippines to Italy and Hungary to the USA that the solution is to teach everyone worldwide to always treasure other people’s children. Then we wouldn’t neglect and harass the Roma, execute blacks that run from police or tolerate reducing of girls from the Ukraine or Thailand.
In art and photography we need a determination in each of us to acknowledge, protect, and nurture each other’s private explorations and journeys in art.
I, myself grieve that Jerome’s comment on the artwork of the Belgian model was not noticed and disclosed enough by anyone. It’s an important challenge to institutions that govern our behavior.
The new scanning work by Antonio Correia, although not a new concept and technique, has revealed a valuable pathway to explore. Again few comments.
It is not merely a matter of everyone exchanging, candies, cake and cookies but if we don’t examine other modes of expression and say “I was here and salute you”, each of us is left a little wounded.
In this case, “Noirs” is a major personal creative effort that is based on decades of professional obsession with creative viewpoints of majestic vessels, grand vineyards and daring Architecture, (each with Romaric expression of textures, color and sensuous form), that prepares you to embark on the very challenging investigation of “Blacks” as a color in “Noirs”.
For months you found resources and inner energy, recruited friend and family and delivered a major ne “0evres” that rightly you are proud of up to the sky.
In all this effort and joy. Where was the OPF you had helped get on its feet more than a decade ago. Why were they not partners in this excitement, but for a handful who showed interest?
We, first of all, it is the custom to post and wait for replies, few invest in other people’s work beyond visiting, enjoying and then moving on. This perhaps is the result of our modern “2.5 second culture” of overload of news, fame and ignominy.
Next we don’t treasure each other’s children.
Lastly, we don’t reach out enough beyond our. Onfort zone, even to five cookies and candies and a pat on the back.
Don’t blame OPF, that is our entire society. And while we are distracted by or cell phones, Twitter, facebook, electronic games and superficial movements like, “me too”, thousand of migrants drown at sea off Italy and an improbable fabulistic 259 word vocabulary orange haired billionaire takes over the most powerful country in the world and undoes philosophic grounded ethics, and civic morality and respect, freedoms imported from France, England and Germany that we thought were sacrosanct.
In all this, folk paying attention to the highly creative exploration of “Noirs”, becomes ratified. Remember, this is also happening to the writings, sculpture, paintings and music of thousands of equally creative folk all over the world.
So what is the answer. You must continue to create and share your work. Even 5 or 6 followers would be a success. In the end, it’s the artist who must appraise his or own work and admire its separate existence.
But when your work and mine are eventually recognized we will celebrate.
Each of us has a lonely journey. I believe in yours and know you will gather more followers in and outside of OPF.
Your work is original, daring and well done. But it still requires a refined mind to enter this new universe. Remember how many struggles you, yourself have had in deciphering and expressing your own discoveries in the near darknesses you created.
So you have to expect that those looking for the warmth of a lightly draped mother by the evening windowlight nursing her infant are going to be disappointed and aghast. They might be looking for easy entertainment.
I myself am looking forward to seeing the printed brochure and later to walk through a gallery with full sized prints.
Typed in my tiny iPhone screen! Excuse the many typos, I will edit on my computer, shortly! ??
Asher
