I went to this show with Q sometime around the turn of the century. I took this photo with my old Voigtlander rangefinder. I think I will quit posting my own photographs here and use the photographs by others from now on. I am disappointed about everything at the moment. I am not getting good feedback on my creative life and think it might be better done in secret to be revealed only after my death. I'm tired of the world and tired of expecting anything good to come from it. I'll be a curator here. I will reveal a wonderful world to you without any cost to my own psyche. I'm tired of arguing my case. It costs me too much.
I took this picture, though, somewhere back in time. Now I'll go and begin my collection, though my choices will probably get me into trouble, too.
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), Swedish painter, deemed that her collection of visionary work be kept hidden until 20 years after her death. She felt that her work would only be understood in the future. But today is different. Who knows if anything will remain in 20 years time.
ReplyDeleteI do better when I don't expect anything. Dispense with expectation. Make the work.
Don't hold back. The March photos had to be displayed together in the same post. They work like film.
I've either spent too much time expecting too little or expecting too much. It is all catching up with me just now. It is a hard thing to shrug off the past when it gets so big, when you have more past than future. I don't know, kid. I'm about done.
DeleteIt's not a good decision. I miss your pictures and publications
ReplyDeleteThanks man, but I feel decimated at present. I do appreciate your comment, though. I really do.
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