Quote Originally Posted by Asher Kelman View Post
You were right, nevertheless! Simplicity is needed and Bobpin succeeds in the next picture to bring his work to a new level of clarity and he walks away from beauty and turns his back even on the value of the girl. It's all focused now, (as you realized is necessary), on just one symbolic statement.



Bobpin,

There's no ambiguity. Still the same division of the image into a deep zone of discomfort, really OOF and then an aggressive posturing, and unlike the previous beautiful female, rather passive, but challenging and attractive feminine form, here you remove any pretense of or need to consider any beauty whatsoever! This is now not an angry complaint, it's a full blown explosive, government shaking protest! It's existential! There's only one Chinese character symbol this time and that's in focus and nothing more is needed to make the point more forceful.

This is a far more decisive image with no possibility for missing the point. For now we're as far from beauty as Tiananmen Square!

There it was one man with a shopping bag stubbornly blocking and facing off a tank! That scene, seared in our public conscience, is re-staged by seeing your new work by a woman stripped down to her flesh and the dismissed in the haze of disturbed vision with just the lone symbol for one man protesting and, in a way, it all resonates to make us remember. There are those victims massacred with no accounting. Now others who's lives are stolen are hidden behind prison walls. This work speaks to all that.

I appreciate you sharing your fine images.

If art is about moving us, then you have succeeded!

Thanks,

Asher
Hello Asher,

This project is still being done. Your comments are inspiring which can help me to develop it in different way. I'll keep posting and get yr comments.

Many thanks



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