Difference is often perceived as an anomaly, as an error to be corrected, an illness to be cured. Of course, being a member of the majority is reassuring, it is natural to be attracted by the protection of the group. However, why attack those that have other aspirations? When I turn the TV on, when I read some magazine or newspaper, when I simply look around me, I keep witnessing intolerance against difference. Lifestyle, skin color, sexuality, politics, religion, haircut... literally anything not in line with the majority is systematically attacked.
Let's imagine for a second a whole society, a whole world, full of similar persons, looking the same, thinking the same, loving and hating the same things... it would be a guaranty for a total absence of evolution. Each kid would receive the same education, generation after generation. Art, experimentation, any kind of individual expression would be extensively controlled and adjusted, to fit the mandatory "good" taste. I hope such perspective looks as frightening to you, as it looks to me. If so, please, express yourself: create! Play music, sing, write poetry or books or blogs, paint, draw, photograph the world or your fantasy, record movies, dance, sculpt, code software or video games... anything. Do it now, and share it around: helps this world staying alive.
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I do wish I could watch this process. There's a chance that we might move to France for about 6 months in a year and a half or so. Can I sit and watch for a day, if I do? :)
Thanks Wendy, much appreciated! I would imagine that watching me working on an image would be painfully boring, as it is often a slow process. However, it sure would be fun to meet, be sure to drop me a message when your trip is planned :)
I do wish I could watch this process. There's a chance that we might move to France for about 6 months in a year and a half or so. Can I sit and watch for a day, if I do? :)
I love watching how your mind works. and the tones of this are just incredible. And thanks for taking the time to suggest an easier way to do mine in the future -- it was definitely getting irritating! I made the mistake of trying something that changed perspective each time the first time around, so I forgot to look for shortcuts the second time. :)
Staying with the norm, the normal, the usual, we create a rut, along which we trudge, unaware of anything but the direction of the rut, towards more of the same. To chance veering off the rut, we risk staggering, tripping, falling. Maybe dying. Do we have the courage? Should we take the risk, out there where maybe no one will ever see us, rescue us? Or is it us rescuing everyone else, as we try to forge a new path?
Very provocative, and beautifully created, Christophe. Your conceptual talent is staggering.
Congratulations! Awesome, as usual. I live in a city that often rejects the different, which is sometimes hard to take (even though I am a member of the majority by race and sexuality). My children can't wait to leave, and I may not stay once they are gone. Lack of tolerance is stifling.
My mind completes the phrase 'another brick' with 'in the wall' before I can stop it. If there is a wall here it must be metaphorical. The men all have their head in a book. Or their head is a book. Books represent stored knowledge & information. The path they are on runs through what looks like a fallow field, & is muddy, tracked by the heavy wheels of farm equipment. The men seem unaware of the field and the path, seemingly intent on getting over the hill to the giant book. They are not struggling toward the Light.
There, that's the best I can do to describe what I think I see.
The story for me is the allure of the past, the information & history, the temptation to ignore the Light, the field, and the muddy path. It's impossible to have the best of both the past and the present at the same time. Maybe that's why history repeats itself.
Aside from all that, I very much enjoy looking at the dramatic & storytelling way you use light & shadow.
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