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Response to My current fetish: Michel Comte

from shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com)
Well, I can identify personally with lethargic and underweight, because I'm physiologically both (at over 35 pounds underweight since forever...). I also find complete identification with the attitudes of the models. They LOOK the way I FEEL.

Tom, many of your posts had led me to realize there are (on one level) two kinds of artists: those who hope to identify something objective WITH the objective world, and those who hope to identify something subjective TO the outside world (and I guess there are those who could care less if they identify anything with anyone at all). I am starting to think I am most interested in seeing myself in other's work, rather than using others' work as a way of expressing something objective objectively (if that makes sense). Which isn't to say I "do art" for the same reasons, only that what I seem to look for in others' is a piece of myself...which for me is a great way to 'connect', to see that, in a world where you yourself are constantly trying to mold yourself to another's (society's?) vision of "you", that someone somewhere is holding up a mirror...

Comte does that for me, as do all those skinny, lethargic, heroiny tools of the large machine, and I can never apologise for that any more than I could apologise for being born shawn gibson.

shawn

ps I checked out the site. I like the work a lot.

(posted 8777 days ago)

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