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| -------------------------------------------------------*^-^*---------------------------------------------------------- Is George's story about the omnipede his own? and is the artwork yours? It's so interesting because it so accurately reflects two people who pledge to become one, yet work in different ways, seeing things differently and occasionally curling up around the table to bring news to the other of their travels along the same road, just as you and George have done. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your paintings...quite captivating, intensely intriguing and so unique. I do not profess to know much about art but, love it I do. Then I started reading and feeling your visual correspondence with George. A few things came to mind as I traversed your journey from beginning to end. Thank you fro sharing it. #15 and #16- About "W"(double U) could this double U be (you and you)? Me and You? "We"? While I am always me, you become the other person who makes the"we"; God and me, My child and me, My friend and me, even my enemy and me. I realized that the commitment of marriage means turning the Me in me upside down; to a W which then makes Me a We. And if and when you give up the Y in Yours, it becomes Ours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am in complete agreement, art IS communication - on many levels, from a statement of percieved fact, political comment, emotional response, basic fundemantal reaction etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like the "conversation" it is more like a "concert by words and images". I can see this turning into a visual performance by adding music to the words and images; it could accompany an art show. It can also be a great book. My only concern is that by publishing it now, both of you will become "subconsciously" "self-conscious" and you will loose the freshness of the correspondence. I feel that maybe both of you will feel less free knowing that your words will be published on the internet. Great idea and great philosophical exchange. "Not lonely but alone" comes from a space of contentment. "Lonely" is a state of grief. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alone but not lonely and in later years lonely and not alone...exactly. How things turn, turn. I used to be my own hero too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you so much for sharing your conversation. I am deeply moved. I can’t wait to read more of the correspondence. Love & Peace, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have one of your figurative pieces. I love her...some find her rather bleak, sad and blue but I see the still ness.. and like you are saying here...her aloneness but not lonely. Your waters run so deeply and poetically..your words are beautiful. There was a book about ten years ago called Sabine and the other name eludes me. It was a book about two people who had never met but began a long and beautiful communication because of a misdelivered letter. It was a love story... lovely and sensative like what you are doing with George your friend.. I would love to see this work, and your others shared. Every blessing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rin, I LOVE it! It's beautiful ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very effective. It is a wonderful project. I enjoyed it very much. Also, I enjoyed going back and looking at your lovely work. You are such a talented, talented artist. REALLY GREAT. I hope that you will have it all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Rin and George Thank you for sharing your "conversations". I, as an artist, have asked myself these questions too, especially now in my later years...what is the meaning of me? my work? does it have meaning for others? why? I related to what you said about the "I" and original thought...are artists just more likely to be deep thinkers? Always probing the everlasting question of meaning of life? I believe I was a poet from the time I was five and wrote my first poem, and drew my first picture....giving it to my mother to make her feel better, and waiting for her response...the artist even at five seeking some kind of validation perhaps? or is it just that we feel, and therefore must create and express those feelings from inside so that others will be helped or healed in some way through our healing? or we must create because we are who we are whether it heals someone inside or not? I am a painter and a stone sculptor, and through my feelings and life experiences and work with other people and myself, over the years, I believe I express my feelings totally (sometimes not deliberately) through my art. It is my hope that when people see or touch my sculpture they can feel what I feel and have a deep connection to that "knowing". Sort of like instant recognition that touches something deep inside...like your paintings do, Rin, they are lovely to see and they really do express such emotion. . Sincerely, Ilona J. Passino, Sculptor (www.passinogallery.com) |