Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 - 12:39 am
i don't deserve this. i sometimes get stunned about some things. there was a day i had been looking at the horror of goya's drawings of war. i even made a note of it here on DL.
back before the days of war photographers, he crawled through the blood and waste to document the atrocities to mankind during napoleanic war times. his work was done there on the battlefield, he saw things that were living nightmares.
imagine my surprise when i was looking through the site Art Conspiracy where my own art is hosted and i see a girl's art site there with wicked angels of horror and lined work (even collages) that looked like something goya might have done himself, and this was a young woman, this was not in a time of war on her front doorstep- and yet she still had that kind of vision. it was pretty wild to me. this is her site on AC.
seems like its easy enough to be shocking and horror themed (some of which i like- as in rob zombie's work etc) and its fun and "oh so scary" but its not "real". somehow her work felt real- and it was ugly in that wonderful dark vision'd way and it also felt like a kind of beauty was struggling to get through. i was impressed and left her comments about the pieces i liked and even gave her the link to Goya's work. i have run into so many great artists whose families say ignorant things like "that doesn't look like a horse (or whatever) to me!" the kind that would have insulted CHAGALL
for not staying in the lines
i was honest and told her what i liked, i wanted to make sure she knew from me that i believed she had something special- an artistic gift that was worthy of attention.
that was a little while ago.
today in the mail i get an envelope from her- she has sent me two of her original (yes original) drawings. (one is the piece called "angel" in her gallery.) i never asked for this, i only told her my honest thoughts. i don't even know how to say thank you because that just sucks- its lame and impotent feeling. i have to think of what to do to properly say thanks- this gift from out of the blue means so much. i am stunned. humbled.
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