“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
Some art doesn't need long explanations. The image does the talking - with no more than a title to steer you in the right direction.
Some art is painful to look at. The image at first bypasses your brain, reaches into your ribcage, and yanks at your heart before you've even had time to form an opinion.
Some art teaches you a little bit about what it's like to be human. And in some cases, it's a cruel lesson...
This is the simplicity and directness I find in French Sculptor Marc Petit's poignant work. The work shown below is called The quarantine, but if you're a human being you don't even need that title for the image to unleash a whole stream of associations. And how could those associations not include horror and compassion?
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| La quarantaine - Marc Petit |
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