(from Madison on 03/13/11) I a little bit questioned my presence there but on reflection I realized there's no way I would have understood the sort of positivity that was happening there if I hadn't actually gone. I wanted to witness a spectacle but I ended up just feeling warm and present, I may just have been another body but it was inspiring enough to take back. I've seen some of my friends change through all this, it feels good!
cell phone pictures!
Also, I can't remember if I posted this review of a chapbook I made earlier this year which you can see my images of here!
It's sweet and exciting, not very critical but a good way for local art writing to function, to encourage and support, sharper criticism conveyed well would do the same though. Anyhow, I always return to this portion of Albert Camus's Nobel Prize banquet speech which he delivered in 1957
"Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. But I have not been able to learn of your decision without comparing its repercussions to what I really am. A man almost young, rich only in his doubts and with his work still in progress, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship: how would he not feel a kind of panic at hearing the decree that transports him all of a sudden, alone and reduced to himself, to the centre of a glaring light?"
Speaking of Nobel Prize speeches, Ijust heard this recording of William Faulkner's and it's amazing too:
