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The Human Spirit
By Hilary Preece
I have recently watched a video from Dailmotion on Graffiti in Marseille. Amit Mendelson, who produced the video, pointed out that Marseille is the second largest city in France, full of poverty, and life. He maintained that the graffiti was a cheap way of decorating. I would question the work "cheap" for some of the art work, covering whole buildings, must not only have been expensive in time but also materials. It got me wondering however, if this art work, found mostly in the poorest and most squlid areas of large towns, is an example of the fortitude of the human spirit, always striving to turn bad into good, ugly into beautiful.
Recently my partner died unexpectedly. It seemed the right think to do to raise money for his favourite charity. I am very awair that while I was with him, and very contented, my personal creativity ground almost to a halt, and that now he is gone, that is being revitalised.
He was a musician/songwriter. He told me how he kept paper by the bed because sometimes he woke in the night, and wrote whole songs. In the morning, he told me, he often had no recollection of having done this, but would find the song sitting there. In the two and a half yours we were together he didn't write a single song; infact probably not more than half a dozen lines. His son has told me a songwritter can never produce songs when he is happy, infact some songwriters seem to seek out misery to ensure there work is good.
So then, does this mean there is a clear link between misery and creativily, good and evil, ugliness and beauty? Is the human spirit compuled to rise above difficulty? This would then answer the for ever asked question, "Why if there is a God of love, does he allow such awfull things to happen". I am not a thealogen, or a philosopher, but it does make you think! |
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This intel was contributed by Hilary
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