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[fuchs]

The art I see these days is a sublime sort of dark one.

99rooms, lomography, urban_decay, and now Esao Andrews.

I feel a kind of fascination with deformed little creatures, abandonded, sometimes totally pointless buildings, deep shadows and blurry impressionistic snapshots of urban life.

I wonder if this is a new , silently approaching turning point of art.

Around 1900 artists often focused on the sky. I do love those pictures, but nowadays so many wonderful paintings, photographys and other artworks look at the ground.
tribun once portrayed the setting sun by taking a foto of the sun way up in the picture and the long road, which reflected it's light and took up, what, 90 % of the shot?

There is something unmistakably wonderful, ultimately "art" about found objects, random kindness, or humble little graffitti, lurking happily in the shadows of the cities. Look at banksy's site.
And which city doesn't have a graffitti saying: "You are beautyful" on the wall or "look up" on the floor or "Fashion Kills Personality" or something similarly simple and poetic?

And the darkness isn't about being "goth" or "punk" as the clichés stand.
It's about seeing the routines and nets of human communities and human life. Knowing it, and knowing after 50 years of fighting it, that fighting it isn't the point.
It's about seeing the darkness lurking everywhere but seeing the beauty in it all, too.

I certainly hope so.