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On Iraqi Kurdistan
Brendan O’Leary, who recently lectured at Bennington College, is recorded here along with street camera work in Iraqi Kurdistan.
- The artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal. His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: to that part of our nature which, because of the warlike conditions of existence, is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities
- like the vulnerable body within the steel armor. His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring – and sooner forgotten. Yet its effect endures forever. The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom:
- to that in us which is a gift, not an acquisition, and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speak to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation – and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity
- that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity – the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. (1897)
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