HELEN LOCATELLI
(Project Remaining)
Had the Martindale collar, had the no-slip
leash, was born on a leap-day of February
last, only every four years. Stayed young
but it didn't last : it was carp, carp, yell,
yell - 'My daughter's a madwoman,
now sleeping around!'
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'Capturing the cruel radiance of what is',
that's a quote from Walker Evans. I always
liked it. In itself, not much, undefined, few words
The question to himm of course, was - 'why do you
do you art, why photograph or write or paint at all,
any creatively constructed thing?'
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Every writer, every artist, wants to capture what is.
Not what they think it is, but what it really is - which
means you have to really dig deep into oneself in order
to pull out some things that are very difficult, and
sometimes challenging as well.
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Aristotle says : in his 'Metaphysics' : that 'all
human beings by nature desire to know.' That
seems okay to me - we ourselves startle the sky
by our presence as much as it startles us, and water
and the harbor seem to meld together anyway.
Knowledge through confrontation is the only way.
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