samedi 4 avril 2009

une sublimation d'humanisme

today a poignant comment was made by a collector who returned to see the marcos carrasquer exhibition "nobody's dead"  for the second day in a row. she said that she could sense in his work "une sublimation d'humanisme" despite the presence of sadistic scenes or horrific subject matter. she said without knowing marcos that he must deep down be a humanist at heart because she felt an ultimate hopefulness coming from his work. 
her capacity to express this type of truth is an example of what i call seeing with the heart's eye; she was clearly receiving from his paintings and drawings well beyond the visible. but it is only through the visible of course that the invisible level can be accessed which is why paintings are doorways into the unknown. it isn't a matter of understanding intellectually with the frontal brain, it is an intuitive comprehension that the heart's antennae pick up.
if only i could figure out a way to show people how to open their heart's eye....wide open so that they can absorb in through their pores all this lovely life force.

1 commentaire:

  1. Congratulations for your new blog. Should we write exclusively in English, or could we do it in French ? I speak Spanish as well...

    For Marcos Carrasquer, I have loved the drawings shown in the Salon du Dessin. I appreciate the people being able to retain the human shape in mind and transpose it freely on the paper or canvas. Memory takes part in this sublimation Deborah speaks about. It makes me thinks on the many children that dayly sublimate their terrors by drawing scenes of war and violence.

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