A new short series named "Art and absurdity in religion". It was made some years ago in and around the big cathedral in Milan, which does represent a huge achievement of architecture, sculpture, and so on. Nonetheless I found the whole appearance, as resulting from the subject, to be quite absurd. Not antiquated, but absurd. Much like on this one, an unimaginably good work on window glass, but the scene... It shoulkd be perceived as a "witness" of something "holy" that happened, and that was planed in order to "save my soul", or similar. Which should be also taken as a "present". But I never asked for such a present, or for any other metaphysical nonsense. And thus it still is a very good piece if arts, but its content is a joke to me.
The image has problems of elimination of some faces due to overexposure, but I hope they don't weight as much in the presence of the rest of details. Any comments/ideas/critiques would be very welcome.
An atheist is somebody that allows himself to question the most "certain beliefs" without caring at all about the fears and "feelings" of all those who still live somewhere in 1250! I can pulverize each and every god or demon within a tenth of a second!
Thanks a lot for the encouraging comment, Gustavo. But the image... Many faces went completely overexposed. Sigh!
Thanks a lot for another intriguing comment, Visar, of which I hope that many of those kids with... white wings and horrible bible songs will read. ;-)
About the idea: I only say, should I ever like "harmony", then it would be definitely not the plastic Disneyland harmony of the dummy follower of some kind of religious belief, be that Jesus, Allah, Manitu, or anybody else of those really nice but analphabetic guys that managed to create such a hype in their times. I am human! Much better than any idea of the "godly". I am in the position to laugh with all that "godly" mediocracy.
Ooops, hahhaaaaaa, Visar, now they will call me godless. And what am I going to doooo -ohhh,I am soooo afraid. I am really devastated! What a great problem, really! I couldn't sleep for nights because of that ;-) Well, when somebody needs another improvement of his/her mediocre life then I would say, go ask Jesus, Allah, Manitu, whatever. This is what the image was intented for. Don't ask me, I am only a disrespecting mathematician who never cared to be "forgiven" or "salvaged" anyway. And please, when this earth is near its end because of the always sooooo religious stupidities, that all the politicians and the managers and the leaders still keep on singing because of their own "beliefs", hey, then don't turn to me once again! You have your absolute "rules" made from yet another analphabetic "son of God" , or "Prophet" or whatever, who... never existed! Go look for some solution in the bibles, the qurans of whatever those mediocre books may be named. Good luck! I still sit smiling with a whisky on my balcony and I don't care anymore if "the planet is saved", "humanity is saved", or anything at all is saved. Last thing you see when you go down is those ridiculous concepts of religions that still are the best way for destruction. In all of us!
Visar, thanks a lot for yet another real clarification!
Still sitting onmy balcony in the night, and there are more stars than religions. ;-)
Well, Dave... yes, that overexposure puzzels me. Some more detail on the faces of some of the guys could bring more into the image. And I really wonder, why some of them still have enough "painting" while others are simply uniformly painted plain... ballons. The light was pretty much the same, and still some of them are faces and some of them have no characteristics at all. Strange! Or could it be that the light was not really the same over the whole image?
Dave, we can do whatever we want, but we still attach our ideas to anything we see. And perhaps it is also good this way, I don't know. Imagine for example, what could any pointilistic image be if we wouldn't attach our ideas to it? It would be some "grouping of points" much like any computer camera sees that. So, on this one I am also quite grateful for having the opporunity to see it, but still I wonder about the sense, the purpose, the underlying beliefs, etc. You know, when it was in the making it was also the quintessence of the beliefs of its own times. But what is it now expept a wonderful piece of artistic work? It lost content, I guess.
No me sorprende que un ateo como vos se enfoque en la iconografía religiosa, realmente tu punto de vista será muy interesante, me parece genial el título de la serie. Bienvenida esta serie de fotos!
Estuve muy ocupado esta semana pero despacito iré viendo todos tus últimos trabajos.
what a question!! it entails a whole thick fence of contradictions and dimwit nobility of some unimaginable hilariously horrifying constantly fading make up for the sake of some ensured nest of shallowness succession- laying back... and it lingers on, and on.
technically speaking, it is like saying 'i like harmony'. but then it is a mere great choice to pose this question Nick.
I guess now we can only enjoy the art and architecture for it's own sake, Nick, rather than attaching our own ideas to it! You've got a good representation of the stained glass here even though there are some overexposed highlights. Dave.
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