Hi,
Do you think we could get Pentax to support a group project of some kind.
Maybe something where we took a poem or something and illustrated it.
It would help if it was a known favorite poem of a dearly departed person of
some international stature. Did Gandhi have any favorites. How about Mao or
Sister Theresa?
It would be great if the poem talked about images from everyday life and
close to home that touched us and showed what parts of our lives make us feel
uplifted. Something that celebrated the joys of being alive, both glorious
and mundane, and gave each us a chance to show home & family, school & town,
fellow workers, clerks & tradesmen, ...well you must have the idea by now.
It's an exciting project and I think we should do it. I'd even contribute
some shots for free if Pentax would sponsor it.
Or if this project is too sweet for Pentax maybe we could go out and
photograph all the things that make us feel really bad and depressed about
our lives. It could be like an Anton Checkov play...Then Pentax surely
wouldn't throw up.
It's too bad that most of the poems that famous dead people liked, the
nostalgic kind of poems, cloaked pride of place in patriotism, nationalism or
the flag to make it acceptable to express these unmanly sentimental feelings.
This makes it hard to find an international poetic vehicle, hard to see past
mention of a nation and into the expression of more universal feelings.
But lucky for us, we are more traveled than any generation before us.
Luckily, we see and hear more of the world than any of our ancestors did. We
are educated, cultured, sophisticated people of the world. Surely we see
past this waving of the flag and into the pride of place and culture that is
expressing a common human joy for being alive.
Or maybe not...
Regards, Bob S.
(I offer my pre-apologies to the countrymen of the great writer Anton
Checkov. I find his work moving, but reading it casts such a powerful gloom
that I must avoid him.)
(I figured out by the time I was 13 or 14 that we are one world and one
people. We could be from across the tracks or from the 'Evil Empire', but we
were all the same, even in 1959. We hold the same aspirations for ourselves,
our lives, and our children. We share the same joys in the daily experiences
of life.
Maybe we need some real space invaders to bring us to our senses. <g>)
(Why would you see my celebration of my life and who I am as something that
diminishes you?)
(Again, Bob S.)
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