ART Habens
Camille Danielle Wortman
We must first of all agree on what is the meaning of
visual art! Sure , whatevever one sees in any exhibition
is visual, as we wouldn’t be able to experience any of it
without our eyes, but I feel uncomfortable when labelling
contemporary art visual,as most of the time there is very
little to see and without a very long and hermetic text I
don’t see anything! I am sorry, but I feel that the art
scene is bare, the museums are bigger and bigger, their
architecture is absolutly fabulous and grand, but I find
that the emperor inside is naked! I will most probably
make a lot of artists angry, but I don’t get excited by
ropes and knots inviting me to crawl inside a labyrinte,
and I don’t get excited at looking at two planks of wood
posted against the wall! I need more and I would love art
to be more than a gimmick!I don’t have to touch
something or crawl inside it to be moved! Rotko’s
abstract paintings move me to my very core ,Veuillard
my dear friend makes me smile in complicity, the
nenuphars of Monet make my heart beat faster....I also
love the work of David Hockney. Yes, I have a problem
with the provocative work of Damian Hirst, and I don’t
care much for Bansky political work! Sorry, sorry!
As I have already told you, I live in a very small village ,
away from a big city, I sometimes show my work at
different exhibitions in Tel aviv or just in the region I
live,and I use facebook and my blog as a platform to
show my art, but I cannot say that I have many
followers... I paint because painting and writing stem
from my need to express myself! Of course , I would love
it if everyone loved my work, everyone read my book
and my poems, otherwise I would not try and make them
public. Does this wish influence my subject matter or the
way I paint or write? No, I don’t think so! I write and I
paint just like I talk, impulsively, it just comes out of me,
a” me” that I don’t really command. After being told that
I had cancer , when I decided to write my book, I just did
it, the text pouring out of me! I never reread it and my
daughter in law was the one who sent it to Amazon
publishing! I don’t even own a copy of the book ! One of
my brothers baught it ,read it, loved it , found it very
strong but said that it needed editing! O.k! maybe one
day this will happen! I just didn’t have the money to do
it! Whenever I write my poems, it is the same thing that
happens. They just happen, short like a passing thought,
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