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Re: with all due respect to ALL critical Assyrians, BUT....
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Tuesday, November 8 2005, 0:39:36 (CET)
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Maggie wrote:
>Buzz off!

...whoa there! I think you're getting a contact nutz from Shushan...it is not necessary to kill EVERYONE who has a valid criticism...Donny George is coming at the subject from HIS perspective...and I from mine...and then YOU land on us both with hobnailed shit-kickers on!

...this is NOT the man to tell to "buzz off". He was very measured in his comments...he was fair in recognizing the technical, maybe even artistic merits...but merely said the details were not ACCURATE...and I AGREED with him!!!

I then went on..not to tell him to drop dead, but explain MY point of view...from MY perspective...and though we each held to our opinions...we parted good pals with respect for each other's achievements and point of view etc. There was certainly no attempt to deride or denigrate the other.

What is WRONG with you anyway???
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>When I was 17 I began sculpting clay with my hands. I wasn't a professional, just experimental. I had sulpted an Assyrian city and the tower of Babel, which the Oriental Institute loved enough to display it for many years. No Assyrian ever appreciated it, but the museum people did.
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>In the early stages I was influenced by Picasso. I loved everything he did, from time pieces scattered everywhere to women's body parts in all the "wrong" places. I wasn't shooting for that, but did sculpt "out of shape" figures. My brother in-law who was a paleontologist made fun of me all the time. He said the cranium was too big, the body too small in proportion to the head, the mouth was too far down. He kept saying start with a head and place the eyes in the middle of the head and start from there. Well, I didn't want to do that. That's NOT how I saw the people I was depicting. But he criticized and ridiculed me long enough that I gave it up!

...the more fool you!
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>I started writing poetry. I wrote about the ills of Assyrian society. Those so-called "pillars" of Assyrian society. But the Assyrians hated it. So I threw them all in the trash.

...your mistake again...those "Assyrians" belonged in the trash.


My dad had taken them out and saved them, without me knowing it. Years later, Sarah Paz, an old friend of the family was visiting my parents and my dad shared them with her. By then, I had said goodbye to ALL the Assyrians and moved to California.

...as they intended you to....

"Un-benkownst" to me, Sarah had loved them and published them in the Assyrian Star Magazine she was the editor of in Chicago. My dad had saved those magazines from the seventies, but my mom threw them in the trash when my parents moved to California in 1993.
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>The moral of the story? Not everyone appreciates art for what it is. Even the educated ones will find fault in it because they have no idea what their creator felt at the time they made them. There will always be critics, but those critics will NEVER make ANYTHING, they will just always hinder those that DO want to make something.

...he did NOT hinder me...he enlightened me...as I believe I did him...thank god you aren't that kid any more...you have to know whom to throw away...and Donny George is NOT he!



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