BLOG # 25…SEPTEMBER 2013
“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art
one transmits feelings”…if you don’t know who said this, you’ll have to read
the rest of the blog and I’ll tell you at the end. Art also gives substance to
our feelings and calls our attention to issues when words don’t do the job.
His works are huge and often involve work by many artisans for
many hours to execute his ideas. Hundreds
of strikingly realistic hand crafted porcelain crabs scattered across the floor
evoke the millions of creatures (including humans!) displaced by the diversion
of rivers to create the 3 Gorges Dam project.
Working on a smaller but equally important and far reaching
stage Rebecca Difilippo is making powerful statements with and about her art in the videos
that she’s recently mounted on Facebook.
Rebecca is the editor of Moods Magazine and has expanded her reach from
the magazine into social media to explore the symptoms, emotions and behaviours
associated with depression. Creating images was able to help her during the
darkness of her own episodes with depression and she hopes that telling her
story alongside her paintings can help other people with similar despair.
“Broken is the title of this work and strongly reflects the
way I felt as I struggled with depression. During the darkest time of my
depression I felt so incapacitated, so broken that I just couldn't feel any
hope of getting out of the black hole I was drowning in.”
“I painted this butterfly as a way to express my newfound
freedom from depression, my ability to feel and become something beautiful and
living again. I was held captive by my depression for so long that when I was
finally able to feel again, to feel the wonderful beauty of the world around
me, I felt alive, as though I had stepped into a new world, as though I
had been transformed. For a very long time, I was unable to feel and appreciate
so many of the simple pleasures in life... things I had once taken for granted,
things that had just suddenly vanished from my life when depression took hold
of me.”
“Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in
the same feelings…indispensable for life and for progress toward the well being
of individuals and society.”
That, and the quote at the top are from Leo Tolstoy who
said many smart things about the value of art.
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