Dear Millie and all:
Millie commented:
"This new work is very elegant. The images and the alpha transparency
technique is very well executed. The user interface works well and is
attractive and does not overwhelm the art. The music (who composed it? is
very emotionally affecting. The theme was moving and well communicated. I
did find the image of the boy to be painful to look at."
My answer::
I am so glad for your comments! There are only two small fragments of music
there. The first one when you click the egg with the word HUNGER, the music
is a very very small fragment of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff , the second
one is another very small fragmentof Pierrot Lunaire, but this one I mixed
with another sound, which is not music - you listen to this music/sound when
you move your mouse on the child. for me it is like a cry. The sound of the
evil-look is a mix of people talknig and some noise that remind me guns.
This sound was created by myself. I decided to build a page of credits to
this work, in fact, I do not know why I forgot this. So that, thanks for ask
me these questions.
Millie commented:
"The work made me wonder if it is fair to make beautiful art out of such
suffering. But your work is firmly directed towards fighting that suffering
(at least as much as art can fight real problems like poverty and hunger.)
In your personal life, I know you rescued the ducks who feature in the work
to stop them from suffering. It is not in your power (or mine) to stop the
children of the world from starving."
My answer:
I thought about this when I created the work with that image and in fact I
do not know if it is fair. I am sure that I will not change anyone because
of my work. However it was impossible for me not to use so strong image
after I found it... Perhaps Art and artists put their work above all,
perhaps ... perhaps I should have hope that my small contribution and
Aranda's project will make some people concious of this horrible problem.
Millie commented:
"I think your work is very relevant to current events, specifically to the
current United Nations Summit in which the United States (my country
unfortunately) made the UN weaken its commitment to the Millennium
Development Goals, which the UN countries had previously agreed to. (The
goals were to halve poverty, send as many girls as boys to primary school,
and reduce infant mortality by (I think, someone can correct me) 2018. This
was supposed to be funded by a commitment from all rich countries to donate
0.7 % (which is so little!) of their GDP to foreign aid.) I think your art
work shows vividly the reason why governments need to fight poverty, in
their country and in other countries. The reason is not political, it is
not economic, it is not strategic. It is the dryness of that one boy's
skin, so tight on his body which has no flesh. It is the dying bird the boy
is reaching toward -- a bird whose own starvation means it cannot feed the
boy. It is also the kindness of people like you, who take in sick birds,
which makes it so necessary that our leaders help people in need. Your
kindness can save two birds, the kindness of all citizens individually can
save a flock of birds and a crowd of children, but it is nations which must
take the lead in solving the really huge problems of development."
My answer:
Yes Millie, I think that the problem of hunger could be much less if
everybody decided to collaborate. Also I am sure that there is always some
person having profit while some other is starving by death - I am writting
about corruption - the history of the ducklings will show it very clear.
Wait! But once more I believe that my new e.book will be only a register of
a hard moment of my life. I do not believe that I will change anything. Also
I do not believe that human beings will be all good in the future. I do not
think that the good will exist without the evil. Do you?
Millie commented:
"I wish your art could be displayed (with art of others which deals with
hunger) where our leaders have to see it, are forced to stare at the
ugliness of suffering. But I fear they are blind to the pain and the
hunger. Our president just made a speech full of lies and false promises
about helping the victims of the New Orleans hurricane. He made it sound
like he would help the people and at the same time is making plans to only
pay for health care for a very small portion of the hurricane victims who
need it in only one state."
My answer
I wish all the artists of the world could make a work about this theme and
that all those works could be seen by our leaders and by everybody.
I imagine that it was because of all of this that Isabel Aranda created her
project. About New Orleans, I am completely astonishing, I have never
imagined that there was so quantity of poverty in USA. Also I can not
understand why the ammount of money spent with war was not used to help the
poverty of your country.
Millie asked:
"What is the project of Isabel Aranda that you did this work for? Is she
looking for new works?"
My answer:
The project is "pulses del hambre" (press of hunger) at
http://www.pulses.yto.cl . And of course anyone can send works to Isabel
Aranda, I do recomend you all do this.
This weekend let's dream with a world fair and without poverty... Would it
be possible?
Regina
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