Hinsel Scott, USA
It's an interesting piece. All the characters seem to me to show a lack of control just sort of silly with it. The colors are good and your snakes are excellent even though I don't necessarily agree with the statement this picture makes. There is always choice...the consequences may not be favourable but the choice is there. You can choose to accept or deny religion to cultivate or neglect your health to play the game of money or become a homeless wild person. etc...there is always some choice. Even not choosing is a choice in itself. Even when you can't choose what is happening or going to happen you can choose how you will handle those events and thusly alter your own perception. Some say that's trading illusion for illusion but at least it's your own fantasy you would be buying into. You can ask yourself does any choice I make really make a difference ? Is it all just pre-decided ? It all very well may be laid out to the last letter but unless you have knowledge of the future it's all still guess work to those of us living now. In life you don't know how the story ends till you read the last line and there's no way I know of yet to skip pages all the way to the end. Reading the Dune books by Frank Herbert really has me thinking of time and 'destiny' in different ways and even so I tend to think that more consciousness, enlightenment, would not only make everyone more happy but the world a better place because through higher thought we see through the mirage of this existence and not only see the sanctity of all life but just for starters realize control itself is like much else - an illusion. thought provoking work as always C. good job.
Donna Walsh, USA
I've been thinking about this piece for a while before I commented. I don't think it's your best or your strongest work, but it is very thought provoking and symbolic, so it can stand just fine on those merits. I was thinking about what Hinsel wrote, and also, just got back from watching matrix revolutions. After watching this movie, I agree with what Hinsel said. Everything is a choice, and with that is a consequence.
Reply by Purandare
Thanks. I am sorry if I am bringing in situations from the third world in, where I was born and brought up - abject poverty does NOT give choice to the very poor because Market does not need poor-it needs consumers with paying capacity, avoidable fatal diseases do NOT give choice to the ill because the State failed to provide clean sanitation, senseless communal violence do NOT leave choice to the victim. Just think of Iraqi civilians - whether then or now - do they have a choice? All the argument above is mostly based on HOW we exercise the choice - I am stating that at least a couple of billion humans do NOT have a choice. Sorry if this reads like a sermon or propaganda!
Donna Walsh
I'm sorry if I came off the wrong way. I do sort of understand where you are coming from. I'm not from a 3rd world country, but I am from one of the poorest places you can find in America. Welfare, ghetto, drug houses, not a lot of choices for impoverished children in America either. I'm not where I came from at this point in my life, and neither are you, so I like to think that there are some choices that we as humans can make for ourselves. I hope you get what I am saying, please don't take it the wrong way.
Reply by Purandare
I quite get it the right way what you are saying, Donna. Only we have much much less chance of realistic-feasible -workable choices back home. And minimum living standard can hardly be called standard in any sense of the term. Again, please be assured I am not offended in any way.
Hinsel Scott
Despite its bravado of being the richest and the most powerful country in history America's wealth and power is controlled by less than 10% of the nation. Furthermore, our poverty line and homeless population is staggering. Urban wasteland. ask someone living on an indian rez how rich they are. Go to the projects off Martin Luther King down in New Orleans. Certainly it's not as bad as many places in the world but this is no promised land - this is Babylon. Disease can take your life but nothing else unless you choose to give it over. Everything is choice in how you decide to handle yourself in any given situation. Death only a doorway. A waking from a dream. 'I could be confined within a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite space were it not for dreams' to paraquote Shakespeare. Reality is shaped by your choice of perception. Poverty, disease, yes all those things make it SO much more difficult and many give in not realizing they have choice. Or being too afraid, or weak to face those choices, or the toil their consequences may bring. Therefore by not choosing, or being unable to exercise said choice they allow their environment and situation to decide their fates. I don't mean to wax so hard about this and it'll be the last I comment about it. I leave here but it's something I really have experienced and seen. Something valid and powerful…I think many could benefit from the knowledge of. I acknowledge fully the 3rd world situations you speak of but I don't give credit to the idea that there is a terminal inescapable world of despair from which there is no relief - I think there are people who are simply trapped by their lack of knowing there could be something else. Please understand I mean no disrespect, nor are my words said with any angst or animosity but rather that I speak with a message of hope and pray peace for those who wallow in the myth that there is NO choice. Thank you for allowing me the chance to voice these ideas to you. peace, love, namaste, and blessings always.
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