Comments on: Reflections on the Wind http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/blogs/shelleyrice/2012/03/20/reflectionsonthewind/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:45:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: shelleyrice http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/blogs/shelleyrice/2012/03/20/reflectionsonthewind/#comment-15 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:43:01 +0000 http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/blogs/shelleyrice/?p=1#comment-15 Thanks so much for your insight, Rebeca, especially about the unforeseeable weather making our “sight” imperative!

]]> By: Rebeca http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/blogs/shelleyrice/2012/03/20/reflectionsonthewind/#comment-10 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:31:41 +0000 http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/blogs/shelleyrice/?p=1#comment-10 “The world is this” and “this” is also (I’m afraid) London, Paris, Berlin or Barcelona (in different levels, of course). I agree with the comment about the boring rich cultural standards, and I also think that being an artist (foreigner or not) is a kind of steeplechase post-complicated in the last years. About the “faces” of the cities: it is a pity, but every time I re-visit a city I feel some essential part of its identity is lost. It seems as if we are involved in a kind of international urban cosmetic surgery. The problem, for me, is that the standards of contemporary beauty transform too many places in the same neutral theme park for tourists with the same shops, restaurants or cultural places. So, any breeze that refresh the ambient is welcomed.
Finally, the idea of “Being an artist or critic means becoming a meteorologist” is funny but, at the same time, unfortunately certain. The problem, right now, is that the weather has returned unforeseeable and may be we have to think now about becoming sighted.

Thank you for sharing this essay (and sorry for my English).

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