“This is not about having your picture taken…that’s not the deal.” – james lescene

“Søren Kierkegaard… feared that the advent of the camera would create one single portrait of us all, obliterating the treasure of our differences. Hayward being a worldly flâneur would seem to take issue with the eminent Dane.” – Richard Merkin, Vanity Fair

 

In these portraits of the collaborative self, all of the text and markings derive from the unexpected truths of self that surface in play and conversation between myself and the subject.  All of the words and constructions in paint and or paper are created by the subject. It’s all their art and their heart. Given enough paint, paper and permission, there’s no telling where we might end up.  – bill hayward

 

 

“the human bible” is about reclaiming possibility and the authority of the imagination – the creative process

“the human bible”  is honoring that which makes us human…imagination

 

 

“Recall”…Sheneca and Oz

 

Recall – william bronk

Great Goddess, come back from where you went.
It is plain that you are still in power.
Let us see you again in your several
guises, disguises, surprises. Be there for us
as you used to be whenever we talk to you.

“truth is older than any parchment”

Truth is older than any parchment – william lloyd garrison

 

“So it is the duty of the artist…”

 

 The Journal of Albion Moonlight – Kenneth Patchen

(an edit)

 

So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame

To extend all boundaries

To kill only what is ridiculous

To listen to no one

To omit nothing

To laugh at every situation

To exaggerate all things

To set a flame in the high air

 

It is the artist’s duty to be alive

 

 

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