Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "art"
"Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is."
"Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is."
~ Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
~ Nadine Gordimer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. And this is not just the great ontological question of why we are here at all, for which religions and philosophies have tried to answer conclusively for various peoples at various times, and science tentatively attempts dazzling bits of explantation we are perhaps going to die out in our millennia, like dinosaurs, without having developed the necessary comprehension to understand as a whole.
Since humans became self-regarding they have sought, as well, explanations for the common phenomena of procreation, death, the cycle of seasons, the earth, sea, wind and stars, sun and moon, plenty and disaster.
With myth, the writer's ancestors, the oral story-tellers, began to feel out and formulate these mysteries, using the elements of daily life - observable reality - and the faculty of the imagination - the power of projection into the hidden - to make stories.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
Poetry & Art this Saturday Sept 13, 6:30 to 8 PM at Building Bridges Art Foundation, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Poetry & Art Saturday Sept 13
With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation
2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-build...
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With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-build...
http://redhen.org
http://www.imdb.me/ helenecardona
http://www.helenecardona.com
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona in World Literature Today
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona. Interview by Alison Williams in World Literature Today:
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/...
"When you understand and know other cultures, you don’t fear the other. There is no other. We should be shepherds of the Earth."
"Translation is necessary to know oneself—to know where one comes from. Every language is a key into the psyche of its people."
"Through translation, we bring cultures together, we create bridges. Becoming familiar with another culture transcends otherness. We are many and diverse."
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/...
"When you understand and know other cultures, you don’t fear the other. There is no other. We should be shepherds of the Earth."
"Translation is necessary to know oneself—to know where one comes from. Every language is a key into the psyche of its people."
"Through translation, we bring cultures together, we create bridges. Becoming familiar with another culture transcends otherness. We are many and diverse."
