tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post8398408718273417320..comments2020-03-11T19:55:50.854-04:00Comments on Art & Document: Sand QueenTimothy Cahillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-59515200869635994152011-09-02T08:03:33.019-04:002011-09-02T08:03:33.019-04:00Hi Susan and Marylinn. Thanks for your thoughts. ...Hi Susan and Marylinn. Thanks for your thoughts. I come increasingly to understand the degree to which art transports us to a scape of dreams, of personal and collective myth, spirit, soul. Its truths are truths common to us all; artists are those among us entrusted and endowed to speak them with clarity and force.Timothy Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-82901796932499862332011-09-02T00:48:49.690-04:002011-09-02T00:48:49.690-04:00The truth that can only come from knowing, and the...The truth that can only come from knowing, and the ability to translate, to make that unquantifiable wisdom somehow accessible...your description of the process reminds me that the artist is also shaman, speaking the language of this world and the other.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-10489563992909026332011-08-17T08:04:27.380-04:002011-08-17T08:04:27.380-04:00[sorry; i had a typo and had to delete & repos...[sorry; i had a typo and had to delete & repost.]<br /><br />This may be an (embarrassingly) obvious comment, and really lies at the core of your blog, but art is a critical lens through which we (safely) experience the horror and degradation of war, the machinery of aggression, and all its ancillary violence. <br /><br />From Robert Capa's defining photograph that may or may not have been artistically tweeked to David Simon's visceral Generation Kill to Sand Queen, these are the vehicles that bring it all home.<br /><br />thank you, Tim; i'll ask my local library to purchase Helen Benedict's book.susan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.com