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***FEATURE ARTISTS: April 2017***
These are the feature artists that will be appearing on the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/) through April. If you don't know them already, they are: Josh Clark, Monika Bancyr De Angeli, John Waiblinger, Terry Furry. Good times ahead!
***FEATURE ARTIST***
Great to announce that the artist Luca Federici has agreed to be featured on the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/) on March 27. I will look forward to featuring this most uncompromising of artists.
***1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHN HOPPER SITE***
This week sees the 1st anniversary of the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/). So this week I will be sharing with you some of the artists that have been featured on the site over the last year. Today celebrates the work of the artists: Andrew Norris, Emmanuel Barrouyer, Mark Hopper, Manel Ortega
***FEATURE ARTIST*** Great to be able to announce a new artist that will be featured on the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/) Aleksander Drakulic is an artist that portrays the energy of the planet, its waves and oscillations, in beautifully bold abstract forms. Aleksander will be featured on the John Hopper site on Feb 13.
***1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHN HOPPER SITE***
This week sees the 1st anniversary of the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/). So this week I will be sharing with you some of the artists that have been featured on the site over the last year. Today celebrates the work of the artists: Jeffrey Earp, Adam Collier Noel, George Kanis, Titus Schulz
***I'M AN ARTIST...***
“I’m an artist.”
“What kind of art do you do?”
“Everything. Everything and nothing?”
“No modesty then.”
He reddened.
“I didn’t mean it like that. I just meant…it doesn’t matter.”
“Hey, I’m sorry. I was just teasing. Tell me what you meant.”
“I don't like being defined. I don't like materials telling me who I am. I don't like people telling me the direction I should be going in. I need to hear the voice from inside, outside, somewhere else. The voice that says ... this is important ... do this now ... stop everything ... literally everything ... and do it now. If you hesitate, you're fucked. If you get distracted, the moment has gone! Does that make sense?”
He stared at the earnest intensity on the face of the artist. Big staring unblinking eyes. It looked as if he had so much to say, and so little time to say it in, as if he was afraid this life would be too short, too brief, too tragic. There was a wild electricity in the room, cold blue steel whiplashes of energy, of need, of an endless, always endless restlessness. Did this artist ever sleep? This was a soul that had a real physical urge to create, and to create fast, to get as much of himself out there as possible, before he what? Fell empty? Died? How potentially sad, and yet how instantly thrilling.
“Yes, it makes sense.”
There was a sigh of relief.
“Good!”
Silence.
“I’m not always good at conversation.”
“I think you’re doing fine.”
“But I get frustrated, I get emotionally tangled. Most of the time I can’t get people to understand. I think they get me, and then I realise they don’t. They'll love the work I think nothing much of, and be indifferent to the work that really means something, that really makes a difference. How can that be?"
Silence.
More silence. What was there really to say.
"So when are you happy? When are you really content?"
"That's easy, when I'm working. It's the only time I'm really alive, when I'm left alone with me, my work, and my thoughts."
"You're an artist."
He smiled. "Yes, I guess I am."
(http://johnhopperwriter.blogspot.co.uk/)
***1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHN HOPPER SITE***
This week sees the 1st anniversary of the John Hopper site (http://djohnhopper.blogspot.co.uk/). So this week I will be sharing with you some of the artists that have been featured on the site over the last year. Today celebrates the work of the artists: Stiofan O'Ceallaigh, Tom Smith, Andrew G Fisher, David Hurley
***I HEARD RUSTLING***
"What's that?""What's what?"
"I heard a sound!"
"No you didn't."
"I heard a sound."
There was a sigh.
"OK. What kind of sound?"
"I don't know. Rustling."
"You don't know, or you do know?"
"I think it was rustling."
"You think?"
"Will you stop being so logical!"
"Someone has to."
He narrowed his eyes and repeated slowly.
"It was rustling."
"OK. Rustling it is."
Silence.
"A bird?"
"Too small."
"Deer?"
"No."
"What then?"
"Werewolf."
"O come on!"
"Could have been."
"You are so full of crap."
"Hey, werewolves are real!"
"Yea, and when was the last time you ate?"
"What's that go to do with anything?"
"Lack of food makes you delusional."
"Does not."
Raised eyebrows. Silence.
"Anyway, how do you know whether werewolves exist or not?"
"Because they don't."
"Says you."
"Says sanity."
"Oh, sanity!"
More silence.
"You'd know they exist if one ripped your throat out, or even worse, turned you into one of them!"
"You need to see someone about that imagination of yours."
"I have."
"Who? A therapist?"
"No. A publisher."
"Same difference."
"Tell Amazon that."
"Hmm."
(http://johnhopperwriter.blogspot.co.uk/)
