ART Habens
Camille Danielle Wortman
did, the fact that I saw women covered from head to
toe, treated like mere possesions , then freed by an
intelligent man and the fact that the attitude towards
women has regretfully regressed awfully has a very
strong impact on my work! The more men want to hide
women, the more I want to shaw them, the more they
want to keep them away from the sacred place, the
more I want to put them in those very sacred places,
whether mosques synaguogues or churches! Women
are not impure, they are not the devil ,tantalysing men
into perdition, enough is enough! We are neither saints
nor satan, just human beings , made of flesh and blood
and if men have a soul, so have we!
I never know what colour I am going to use while I
paint, all my jars of paint and my tubes of paint are
laying at the feet of my work and end up on the dining
room table as I use them straight from the jars or the
tubes, I don’t mix my paint on a palette but straight
away on my canvas or pad , and depending on my
mood, I suppose, my colours are quiet or intense or
both on the same painting because of the dichotomy
that is in me at the time . I wish I knew more about the
process of creation, but it just happens. And yet, I
know most of the time, when the painting is finished,
and the work done.. weird isn’t it?
I am influenced by what I have studied and admired I
am impressed by the art in Pompei as much as by
Picasso or Modigliani, or Degas. I admire the art of the
cave man as well as the egyptian art and as well as the
more modern art, but to tell you the truth I am not
impressed by the new classical music... and yet, I am a
lover of classical music, I am not impressed when I go
and visit a contemporary art exhibition, I am not too
impressed by nonsensical writing either... What can I
do, Dadaisme has had its time and it is time to move
on, enough of gimmicks and games and all the
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