From: Richard Knoppow (dickburk@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 09/17/01-09:44:38 PM Z
At 07:50 PM 09/17/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>lva wrote:
>>
>>
>> I guess that's why some of us are into art. It helps us to deal with the
>> insanity all around us.
>
>
>
>On last Tuesday, I spent the afternoon photographing a row of pears in a
>kitchen windowsill as I listened to unfolding events on the radio, and
>on Wednesday I made a gum print from one of those negatives. It came out
>lovely, golden-brown with a soft light, peaceful and quiet, but looking
>at it I was almost overwhelmed with a sense of futility and despair,
>thinking that art is simply irrelevant in a situation like this, and as
>such has no power to console. I said as much to a friend online, and he
>replied that he couldn't disagree more strongly, and added an excerpt
>from Keats, which I pass on to to all of you:
>
>"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
>Its loveliness increases; it will never
>Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
>A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
>Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
>Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
>A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
>Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
>Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
>Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
>Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
>Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
>From our dark spirits."
>
>
>Katharine Thayer
>
I wrote Kathrine off list to thank her for posting this but think I
should do it here too. I've passed her post along to a non-photo friend who
I think will also appreciate it.
---- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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