(Yes I should be more regular on here. Gift told me (if I understand him right) that he wrote an appeal on the blog-site for me to get out of hiding. I have now)
These are my thoughts on the exhibit:
The first image I registered was one of Huey Newton standing torso bared holding the sleeve of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited.
At first I thought this jarred a little with me. Promited black activist; a snapshot promotional for a white artist. I know Bob Dylan was prominently a supporter of Civil Rights. Thinking about it, that's why the photo was used. Getting across that this isn't about race.
That image says it at a slightly deeper level. A main quote from Bob Dylain in relation to his art is: "read Keats, listen to Robert Johnson, forget everything else". I must admit I have before now found myself first getting into a white or other derivative of black music b4 plumbing what the original was voicing. Rare but it's happened
Whether Huey is connecting to the blues singer Robert Johnson isn't of prime importance but that aspect of things took my attention.
Then Bob Dylan/Zimmermann: Welsh/American/Black etc: cross-culturism, cross everything. Art. Unites or is higher than these more trivial matters
Bob Dylan after the 60's protests, political issues and concerns; he's into Spirituality. That for him is the resolution of all that he's been aching about these past years.
And in mentioning the Spirituality, it reminds me of a friend of mine who was Political. He felt deeply that the way forward was via politics.
I was very very taken aback a couple of years ago when after much struggle with personal problems that wouldn't resolve, he would tell me about going to church (To the best of my belief nobody in his family; nor any friends of his except for me - this change in me happening years after I first knew him - he had no persoanl contact with anyone with any religious inclination)
I guess we can skip this paragraph in saying that the foregoing is my 2cents worth on the exhibit. Useful exercise! Thanks Pete