Sunday, June 26, 2011

A Beautiful Death: cover essay by Peter Daszak on Spring Has Gone

Last year, I participated in the art competition at the EcoHealth 2010 Conference. So very gratefully I received the first prize and Spring Has Gone was to be published on the cover of EcoHealth Journal. The publish was delayed for awhile then I kind of forgot to check on it this year.

When I all of a sudden remembered and went back to their site to check, contents were updated and seemed to have been already published. That wasn't the most exciting part yet. When I clicked to read the cover essay by Peter Daszak, A Beautiful Death, then read it, I just sat there for awhile, motionless. It was a quiet and calm, yet very very beautiful and strong writing and very deep thoughts in it.

Most artists make art because they have something to say. Something they are eager to tell others. Something they desire to express. However, it is not easy for artists to meet the audiences who catch what artists wanted to say. And that is OK. That is the beauty of art- numerous way of interpretation. In the mean time, it is even rarer for artists to meet an audience who could interpret and express even much better than what artists did. In that sense, I feel like I am the luckiest artist.

I am very grateful and thankful how beautifully and profoundly Peter Daszak interpreted my art and delivered it through the precise and beautiful words.

If I am to write in the future, as I have always been wishing, I wish to be able to deliver the message as beautifully as he did.

Check out Peter Daszak's essay here.
And more of the journal here.

1 comment:

  1. I always admire what you write, and in addition, what you draw and paint. Certainly you're greatly gifted.
    Soar high into the vast expanse of Soul so that we too, enjoying your work, may be uplifted and feel purified.

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