With a long carreer as graffiti writer I think the lines somehow have that distinctive motion and shaping in them.
It is scary because she is a victim as victims come: wounded, blinded by atrocities, full of hatred but trying to contain herself. She was a subject to idiocies of a few people from the other side of the planet. She is a number of conflict. Collateral.
On the one hand I feel empathy, compassion for the girl, but all at the same time I feel pure hatred for the perpetrator.
“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.”
― Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species
It is scary and provocative as art should be.
Calligraphy and painting are closely related, as is handwriting. When done well, it is art to me.
With a long carreer as graffiti writer I think the lines somehow have that distinctive motion and shaping in them.
It is scary because she is a victim as victims come: wounded, blinded by atrocities, full of hatred but trying to contain herself. She was a subject to idiocies of a few people from the other side of the planet. She is a number of conflict. Collateral. On the one hand I feel empathy, compassion for the girl, but all at the same time I feel pure hatred for the perpetrator.
“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.” ― Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species