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Just in Time
Chris,
Thank you for this post.
Alicia, our children must have compared notes before dinner. My daughter and I have had this conversation. She loves my work the way it is, mind you, but mentions that I need to create something with a little more "edge" to it, a little more "weird" in order to sell my work.
Her argument: the world is no longer populated by soft glowing figures in repose, we are hard, scared, dismembered individuals in pain. And (where have I heard this before) talent = technology.
My argument: we are the prisoners depicted in the "Myth of the Cave" in Plato's "Republic". What you see in the shadows is not what is. I am compelled to paint what I see beyond the cave door. At the very least, to serve as a counter balance.
Who knows? All I know is that I'm "compelled" to do so. It's what comes out of the end of my brush.
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ALWAYS REMEMBER Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by
the moments that take our breath away.
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