Today I think of Dante's description of "The Bright World" and my thoughts begin to dwell on those of Beauty, of light and of the earth and I sink into my true self - my artist self - then I think of of the dark world where many so blindly live... the destructive places, the holes and the dirty trenches - where like cockroaches - some humans dwell.
Do they not recognize the bright world - why do they persist to live in the destructive hell holes? Thieves, addicts, abusers, cheats, traitors...
Our youngest arrivals - bright and full of promise - reflect the bright world in their sparkling eyes. Yet for so many the sparkles will fade. When does their world turn? Why do some slip in the cracks - fall into the hell hole? Why do some follow - others even jump? And my heart fills with such deep sadness knowing that the only way out is thru pain and suffering - like Dante's Journey. Some will make it back to the bright world. Some won't. Some will forget that it is even there. We all slip. We all need a Virgil.
Is Virgil like the silver thread of faith and experience? The hand that has passed thru the flames before us... the guide. It is said that when we are ready, that a guide will come to us. Will we know it? Will we follow? Will we once again see "the bright world"?
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My Father always told me "You spot it, you got it." The art from an artist is first and foremost, a self expresion.
I think it is you who does not recognize the bright world. Your art is dark. It is dark mostly by choice. Like most artists, you are gravitated toward what you see in the mirror. Do you see the dark world where you too blindly live? If you did not suffer from so much pride perhaps you could create works of art that rise beyond your own reflection and become something authentic and true, beyond you! In your latest blog you all but compared yourself to an artist of Dante's class. One that can "sink into your true artist self" from the bright world. While THEY do not recognize the bright world or THEY persist to live in destructive hell holes. Again, you fail to admit what is in your own reflection, the message of your art to you.
Again, the true artist is able to produce and create beyond their own alter-egos. The hell holes you portray in your work are not ripped off Dante's work as you would safely like to sugest. They are visions of within. If not you, then your art leads me to believe this. You express your work as if it is a different world and that you stand above it. Showing it off. Selling it. Yet there is more than fasination behind your ode to The Inferno. Is your art self healing? The characters in hell in your seem to be in a very different world than yours and a place where nobody looks like you. Your art and comments suggest that you are attempting to seperate the art from the artist with each defiant stroke.
Would you have the interest to paint these images if your only experience with Dante was seeing him and Virgil visiting you in a dark world where many so blindly live?
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