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DOMINIC ROUSE
" To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark."
The Cunning of Unreason
Art Grafts
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Artist Statement
Life can be likened to a movie that is shown only once to a captive audience of one - a darkened auditorium in which the level of illumination is a decision for the solitary occupant.
The perfect prison is the one in which the inmates have been convinced that really they are free. Society is such a confinement, the result of a binding contract made between government and the governed. I find myself attracted to neither camp. The guardians of society are troubled by their own shallows, the fears they have of others are the fears they have about themselves cunningly repackaged to increase their legal appeal.
The artist, on the other hand, is unafraid of his depths and if you offer him the chance to exchange the gift of his imagination for the mediocrity that passes for happiness in the lives of most others he will not make the trade. He will tell you that imagination is the instrument of self-knowledge.
The visionary is charged with the duty of exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
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The perfect prison is the one in which the inmates have been convinced that really they are free. Society is such a confinement, the result of a binding contract made between government and the governed. I find myself attracted to neither camp. The guardians of society are troubled by their own shallows, the fears they have of others are the fears they have about themselves cunningly repackaged to increase their legal appeal.
The artist, on the other hand, is unafraid of his depths and if you offer him the chance to exchange the gift of his imagination for the mediocrity that passes for happiness in the lives of most others he will not make the trade. He will tell you that imagination is the instrument of self-knowledge.
The visionary is charged with the duty of exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
read MORE
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Dream awake
Aasim Akhtar looks at Dominic Rouse's riveting new photographs magazine article in the Friday Times, December 02-08, 2011 - Vol. XIII, No. 42 |
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We are currently rebuilding our website with a new theme - so temporarily this site is functional, but a construction zone.
Headers, background and certain special new functions will be built in, respectively changed. Additionally, most Slide Shows used to be embedded from our Private Social Network on Ning. Since Ning discontinued Flash some time ago, the space where the embedded slide shows supposed to be is blank!
We are working to fix this as well, but with over 500 pages for artists alone, this will take time.
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