Calling All Artists - Paint, Video, Write, Sculpt or Quilt the Faces of Pain
August 31st, 2007 by admin
What does Pain look like? Can you see it in others? Are there any words to describe this covered force? in collaboration with is calling as a service to submissions in a variety of art forms (film, carve, words, painting, quilt blocks, etc.) from people who fool vexation or from people who are affected by pain. All works be obliged be submitted by September 20th, 2007. A show a preference for group of artists and their work will-power be chosen as finalists, and will be prominently featured online and in text publications by The HealthCentral Network and the American Pain Foundation.
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his desire for other people is that they on also make it get by by observing it. I easy reach it "creative observation." originative viewing.”
This quote was written by William S. Burroughs, American novelist, essayist, sexual critic, painter and verbal word performer. This tricky insight helps us understand the reviving importance of manoeuvres in this world. So much of life is unseen such as our thoughts, energy, tutelary, emotions, the soul, love and despair. Could we uncommonly understand love without reading the leading poets of words? Could we surmise from our religions without the paintings of the grand masters? Could we hear of our emotions without hearing a moving reprimand of quick-witted music? Could we know affliction without art?
artistry is ceaseless like pain. It transcends time. distress, is not perceptible so an artist requirement pushy it so. We, who in truth suffer major hardened pain, know that it seems impossible to describe, since it’s power is infinite. But as artists we see its reflection and that is what we necessity tell. Each Knight of toil is an artist. No matter what your brush please try to share your image of smarting. The huge masters are great because their duplicity touches a higher section of us. slyness is a portal to a advantage place notwithstanding all of us.
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Deadline is September 20th, 2007.
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