A Piece of Art that you Love
I am particularly drawn to photography. This photographer astounds and amazes me- Bill Henson. I remember studying him in highschool and just not getting it. I was grossed out.
Post highschool and studying art theory at uni I came to first tentatively like his work than passionately LOVE his work.
Seeing his exhibition at AGNSW left me speechless. It was the most beautiful exhibition I had seen in my life.
Just realized that I've cheated and not spoken about an actual single work. Oh dear.
A Line in a Song or Line of Poetry that Reaches Your Core
I don't really like this band but I love their lyrics. Anyway here are some lines from Augie March's Hole in The Roof that I love-
What do the dead say
To the ones who still think they're alive?
Well that was going to be my 'line' but here's the rest of that verse so you have a bit of context.
"With your heads all on backwards
You can't see in front for what near behind you lies""
Well show us some help then,
Above your head let it flicker the light,
These ones that I'm with
Have not learned to forgive your necessary alibis -When they made you love money,
And the poor prophet's stock,
When they poisoned the watersheds
And fashioned our arrowheads
From the deep forbidden rock
An Experience in Nature that was Really Special and/or Spiritual
I didn't believe that it was possible to have a 'spiritual' experience in nature and laughed at those who said they did until I went to the desert. In the desert there is nothing and everything and suddenly you can hear and see clearly for the first time. There is quiet. I'm not sure what people mean when they say 'spiritual' in relation to nature. Sometimes I think they mean 'special' or 'ephemeral'. But this truly was a spiritual experience in that I felt His presence so clearly and I couldn't not look to Him and say 'wow you did this and you're right it is good'.
The Movie that Changed the Way you saw the World.
I came up with this question and I don't have an answer... Perhaps
The Take by Naomi Klein and her husband Avi Lewis. A doco about the economic crash of Argentina and the 'workers' initiative to restart the closed down factories. It made me see what it looks like for people to be as proactive as humanly possible in changing a current system.
A Piece of Music That Makes You Cry
Currently I'm moved to tears when listening to Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa. bliss.
4 comments:
If you had to pick one Henson pic, which would it be? One of the one you posted?
wow bizarro world, how many of us quoted Eliot!! I did mine first without looking I promise!!!
yeah Em I have suspicions that augie march are influenced by him.
well Byron I couldn't find a picture on the web of my favourite Henson. It is of a simira theme to the pictures I posted but the actual work is ripped and fragmented and there is a great deal more landscape in it.
Did you see the exhibition?
No, we missed it (much to Jess's disappointment). My art education is still extremely patchy.
'Augie march'? (sorry to evesdrop...)
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