The experiences of the past early you write about are so pertinent, especially today. You have a knack for raising and making critical observations of what is happening around us all today. That, combined with your ability to express emotions and events artistically is wonderful to witness!
I can’t put my mind around what human beings have gone through and continue to do so, and our ability to adapt, many times to a point that it becomes the new normal.
I loved the sketches Bogdan! Thanks for the post. Nice read!
Love those drawings, Bogdan – truly wild piece of history, too, thank you! (‘Good’ and ‘bad’ is always so much more tangled-up than we’d like, and changes over time as well, in unexpected ways – why we must stay curious and put our humanity first).
I also treasure those mutually challenging friendships, few things help us grow more effectively, organically, in any way (artistic, intellectual, sport – even character).
I share many of your influences (though not your skill, to be sure) and have been trying to find ways to make clear political points (and also pure art-art, especially music) my whole life – sometimes I try a poem, sometimes a song, sometimes a cartoon, lately mostly essays (such complexity needs careful dissection). But as a foolish young man, I was determined to be a political cartoonist, and ended up working on three different projects which all failed – but with superb and lasting educational effects!
One more reason to remind our students “YOU are the lead being transmuted into gold, not any one piece of work – no matter how heartbreaking any failure to realize vision might feel, in the moment.”
Anyhow, (since you asked) I did a piece about my own silly efforts that might just make you laugh.
Also – OMG I was semi obsessed with that Goya as a kid (and the Maja – especially desnuda!)
I think it was the first art piece where I could see flaws, and recognize they only made it MORE powerful – a conundrum which bears fruit all through our life, when we stick with it faithfully!
Cheers and keep it up – always a genuine pleasure!
The experiences of the past early you write about are so pertinent, especially today. You have a knack for raising and making critical observations of what is happening around us all today. That, combined with your ability to express emotions and events artistically is wonderful to witness!
Thanks for reading, Denis!
A fascinating narration of history and drawing it forward to the current times. It's made even more vivid by your sketches.
Thank you for your comment!
I just left the Auschwitz exhibit at the ROM. It’s the worst of what humans do to other humans.
I can’t put my mind around what human beings have gone through and continue to do so, and our ability to adapt, many times to a point that it becomes the new normal.
I loved the sketches Bogdan! Thanks for the post. Nice read!
Love those drawings, Bogdan – truly wild piece of history, too, thank you! (‘Good’ and ‘bad’ is always so much more tangled-up than we’d like, and changes over time as well, in unexpected ways – why we must stay curious and put our humanity first).
I also treasure those mutually challenging friendships, few things help us grow more effectively, organically, in any way (artistic, intellectual, sport – even character).
I share many of your influences (though not your skill, to be sure) and have been trying to find ways to make clear political points (and also pure art-art, especially music) my whole life – sometimes I try a poem, sometimes a song, sometimes a cartoon, lately mostly essays (such complexity needs careful dissection). But as a foolish young man, I was determined to be a political cartoonist, and ended up working on three different projects which all failed – but with superb and lasting educational effects!
One more reason to remind our students “YOU are the lead being transmuted into gold, not any one piece of work – no matter how heartbreaking any failure to realize vision might feel, in the moment.”
Anyhow, (since you asked) I did a piece about my own silly efforts that might just make you laugh.
Also – OMG I was semi obsessed with that Goya as a kid (and the Maja – especially desnuda!)
I think it was the first art piece where I could see flaws, and recognize they only made it MORE powerful – a conundrum which bears fruit all through our life, when we stick with it faithfully!
Cheers and keep it up – always a genuine pleasure!
https://paulsnyders.substack.com/p/red-ink-foxtrot-oscar