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kevissimo — JOURNAL 2001 - Requiem
Published: 2004-05-11 01:48:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1468; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 304
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(moving this temporarily from my scraps folder, to which it will probably return again soon)From an event long ago. I was the building manager at the time, but I had no answers or information that was of any use. "She was new here. She seemed happy."
I saw her friends weeping outside on the stairs. They had been trying to get ahold of her for days. She waited until her roommate was out of town.
(For privacy I changed her name)
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i came accross your account today,
such a pain can be seen in your work,
yet so much beauty aswell ,
please keep up the excellent work and i hope you dont mind me adding you to my list
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Thank you so very much....As Duane Michaels wrote in one of his pieces "The fires of pain will blow across everyone in time." There will always be pain...I guess the key is looking for the hope and tell the story as honestly as you can....
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts....and the devwatch. It all means alot to me....
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your so very welecome boy
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I love this piece and yet it is so sad how art comes from such an event. I knew someone who took their life. The last person on earth you'd ever expect to take his own life. Yet it always seems to be those we beleive to be 'okay' but really whear a mask to hide the truth from us. This piece speaks to me and will be on my list of faves.
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your journal is so original.... visual... like a picture book taken from real life memories... I have trouble dealing with the particular subject mater.... but not that you have expressed your memories about it at all, I feel that taking down your life so artistically is really a beautiful thing.
I don't think this is exploitive at all... suicide is dealt with by everyone around them, not just the person who does it... it's up to the people still alive to keep on living and to think about what happened...
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Truthfully I think it is well-done as always, sad and pretty. I also think there’s something a tad exploitative about it. I wish it were made up. I would have an easier time with the camera in her house then. I understand artists as those who sometimes help us process difficult feelings and mourning…but this girl is a stranger, it isn’t ‘his’ situation to have had to mourn save for having been the building manager. And its placement here is another thing. I couldn’t help but wonder if this girl’s mom knows this is here and how she’d feel. Now it’s about this artist she didn’t know and not her death. Did they ask for pictures to be taken? Those are my thoughts on it… there are also a myriad of personal contributing factors which I’m not going to get into.
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This is such a sincere piece, Kevin. I really like when you post passages of your diaries. They seem to be so full of emotion, I don't know. You're a mystery to me, and at the same time, I'm glad to see that real people are still alive in the world nowadays, that mass consuming couldn't devour the hearts of everybody.
very, very beautiful.
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Thank you so very much for that.....
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You don't need to thank me, Kevin. Sincerely, you are one of the few persons in the world that is still able to amaze me. For me you're a legend, I admire your work so much, that I don't even know how to describe it.
But better than admiring your work is knowing that there is such a rich mind behind it, that there are motives, there are feelings and thoughts hidden behind the coat of paint you use to hide them, coats that won't melt with thinner, just with fire, when you burn with those feelings and become exhausted. And then they will reveal themselves just for you.
You're rich and so interesting.
And I hope I don't scare you with these messages, it's just that your art affects me so much, I like to see all the messages you hide behind the details, the little bits and pieces that you leave in your diary and in your journal.
It's just sincere. You're magical.
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This is just so gorgeously emotive. I love how it's been put together, and the words used. I particularly like the images of her scattered belongings. Wonderful.
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I was hesitant to post it. It was a very real, very surreal few days. To be just standing in that space....everything just halted in midlife....to imagine what must be going through the minds of her parents, her friends.... its hard to look back on....
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Oh god. That's just so beautiful. ;_; So sad and beautiful. This is such a lovely piece.
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Thank you....apparently not everyone thinks so. I needed to do this... Photography has been my companion for so long now... a way to connect and to process. I've shot at every funeral of own family. It's important. These are the stories of our painful humanity. There are lessons to be taken and real feelings to burn through. This was an event that entered my life without invitation... and i related to it in the only way I know how. I did it with respect, but also with honesty. It was an ugly thing. It's an act that for all it's despair, leaves it's sometimes unendurable consequences in the laps of others...
Consequences they all now have to live with the rest of their lives.
Sorry...that was probably more than ya asked for. I just happened to be working through my motives when I went to respond....
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Of course. Artists express the feelings that are difficult to deal with through their art because it helps them to mourn and then to heal. I don't mind. You don't need motives when expressing what you feel. You just do. Don't feel sorry about it
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Of course. Artists express the feelings that are difficult to deal with through their art because it helps them to mourn and then to heal. I don't mind. You don't need motives when express what you feel. You just do. Don't feel sorry about it
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