The aim of running this blog is not to shock other people.
Instead, I want to bring them some feelings. Such kind of emotions does not have to be connected with pleasures. I wish these feelings to be melancholic and force to think about yourself, about our existence. Salvador Dali was one of the masters of creating shock in the public audience. He was a very inventive and scandalous artist. He was regularly shocking to the audience all over the world. Sometimes the cause of a scandal was his eccentric behavior (e.g., the smashed window during his exhibition at Bonwit-Teller department store, in NYC) or artworks (I will mention, for example, “The Lugubrious Game”). Other examples of inducing anxiety, fear, and shock could be artworks of Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksinski. Or, the artworks of such photographers like Joel-Peter Witkin (“Un Santo Oscuro”) or Robert Mapplethorpe (“The Perfect Moment”).
Nevertheless, I believe that all these artists prove to us that creating shock in art should be reserved only for limited artists.
This kind of art is for those who are honest in one hundred percent of what they do. I am sure that we all can shock other people by describing (both verbally and visually) what we see during our day-to-day activities. For example, we can take photographs of our surroundings. Pictures which I added today is the proof. These images can shock other people. They can bring disgusting and inconvenient feelings and thoughts. Today I did it to prove that our surroundings possess a lot of strange, scary, and disturbing visual details.
But, I want to tell you that we should be cautious about presenting controversial pictures.
We could easily hurt someone’s feelings, for example. Nevertheless, I believe that both shocking and controversial art is much better than the beautiful, literal, and dull art.
Speaking shortly: create, have fun, and look for beauty hidden somewhere in your surroundings. If you find something scare, and in doubt, whether you should take a photo. Do it. Simply. Stop thinking and let the flow of the creation bring up your spirit high.
