[-empyre-] question to Cecilia Parsberg and Susan Meiselas and to all others

["Ana Valdes" <agora158@gmail.com>]

One of the most relevant questions I felt me committed to ask is this
one: when we, activists, writers, artists, meet and describe and
verbalize the "other's pain", the grief of the victims (Jenin,
Kurdistan, Nicaragua, New Orleans hurrican, etc.), how are we using
this pain? Are we a kind of emotions vampyres, using the "other's"
pain and sadness? How should we act to be a part of it, to be involved
and not only spectators?
I met once a Swedish painter, she was very moved by Cecilias pictures
from Jenin, http://this.is/Jenin. She told us "I want to go to Jenin
and paint them, the destroyed houses, the people". I was shocked, how
could she think to go there as a painter, sat up her canvas and paint
them, as they were freaks to be exhibited in a gallery?
Ana

http://www.crusading.se

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