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RE: Peace is death - a fibersculpture for artexplosion and needleworkmonday
I think it is a very powerful entry for the contest, @neumannsalva. All too often words fail me to describe my feelings of dis-empowerment when I read about people trying to cross the seas looking for a stability and safety. At the moment there's also turmoil in Latin America where scores of Nicaraguans and Venezuelans are also struggling to keep going and many take the decision to leave their land meeting rejections of all sorts in their way. All this suffering and injustice does put my own problems into perspective...
Thank you for your kind words. I first was afraid to publish this post, because I thought it kitschy, I thought that I got overboard with my feelings, so it is good to hear your affirmation. My husband is working in a Charity organization which tries to help many different discriminated groups. Refugees are also one of them. To see how people after a perilous flight, who have lost relatives and everything else, are treated can be very saddening. There is so much wealth in this country (and the western world in general) .... It is a shame to see how the poorest in theses societies are played (in their poverty and fear of loss) against each other.
I wonder what art is but feelings. I guess fear is always there (what others will say, what others think), it is there to keep us under control.
You are right, art can/should arouse feelings, but also, I hope (critical) thinking. With my answer to @cryptocariad I wanted to illustrate that I have often a divided opinion of my own art: during the process i am mostly convinced that my idea is valid and worth to be pursued. But when I am finished and have more distance to my work, the critic sets in... and as I have studied art history I can convince myself easily that my own (often negative) thoughts about my artwork are absolutely accurate (funnily in a debate outside my artworks I am more of a constructivist :-DD). I perhaps have already said this... my brain is not always helpful :-D