tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007302601627741320.post3238149317276604111..comments2023-08-02T07:57:01.366-04:00Comments on Exploring Women's Bodies: Albert Camus' speech at the Nobel Prize in Literature Banquet, 1957Susan Singerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671344932984846207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007302601627741320.post-41747308709767399262012-04-16T12:42:17.790-04:002012-04-16T12:42:17.790-04:00Oh my gosh, Tom! I just think about VanGogh's...Oh my gosh, Tom! I just think about VanGogh's work and how it shifts my entire vision just to stand in front of his work. Or a Rembrandt etching. I know you know that. It's amazing to me to think you don't consider that about your own work - of course it helps people transcend pain and fear and see beauty where none existed in their minds. Why else would you paint? (Well, I guess there's a clear answer to that - to transcend our own pain and fear - but if it does that for the artist, of course it would do that for the viewer too!)Susan Singerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671344932984846207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007302601627741320.post-22030457727019642212012-04-16T12:29:58.005-04:002012-04-16T12:29:58.005-04:00Made me sigh. So true. It is hard for me to imagin...Made me sigh. So true. It is hard for me to imagine and I do mean actively use my imagination to allow the craft I engage in to have meaning beyond me and those I teach. I am just starting to believe, deeply, that the works themselves have a power to instill/transcend pain and fear. I have always believed the study, making and teaching do that..but now the work itself stands strong in my mind, heart and soul. <br />Love tomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913023803043410972noreply@blogger.com