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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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Thanks Rico for your reflections on Wendell and Remo in your recent riposte. I
agree. An artist has to encounter the market at some time on his creative
journey. Wendell and Remo are outstanding Goan artists because they produce
art/music/fashion inspired by Goa. Whether it sells, and how much, i think,
comes later.
'Last Bus to Vasco-Poems from Goa'(2006) too had no sponsors initially. But an
inner drive saw it self-published. The Government of Goa stepped in to help.
Now requests for the book are being received from various corners of the globe.
Now my second book 'A Peace of India: Poems in Transit' has no sponsors,or they
have backed out. But I am going ahead with self-publishing it anyway.'Ars
longa, vita brevis'[Art is long, life is short] said the Roman poet Horace.
To create art, one has to be a visionary. To think beyond one's time. So time
will remember one's art.
Brian Mendonca
-lastbustovasco.blogspot.com
