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September 15, 2024
by Béa Aaronson
The same expression in English, Spanish and French using this verb "to take," "tomar," "prendre"
But WHAT am I taking, and from WHOM?
Don’t you also say to "take a snap-shot"? Two verbs turned into a substantive, thus stopping the action inherent to the verb, and fixing it into an immobile composite noun…
The verb-noun "snap" projects the feeling of stealing, robbing, of taking something away hurriedly, and the verb-noun "shot," a violent deathly throw, almost like a homicidal gaze… But again, what do I steal? What do I make mine?
What, whom do I kill?
Is photography a hunt for territorial re-appropriation? A physical, topographical, cerebral, and spiritual re-appropriation? Am I a thief?
A photo shoot! Do I assassinate what I shoot or do I preserve it from decay and death? Do I kill the instant, or do I resurrect it?
When I take a photograph, I enter the mysterious process of time, I experience duration, that is "felt time." A phenomenology of constant discovery, which plays with and harmonizes paradoxes, a simultaneous "pas de deux": instantaneity-pose, fugitive-static, randomness-control, impermanence-permanence...
I extract from the precariousness of life, I resurrect from the flux of temporal and spatial impressions, from the flow of duration, a little morsel of eternity. I fix an instant into my personal memory, which once shared, becomes collective.
WHEN I TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH I STOP TIME...
for a while...
I GIVE TIME BACK TO TIME…
I GIVE LIFE TO A LATENT IMAGE, I RE-BIRTH IT…
I GIVE LIFE TO A MOMENT WHICH OTHERWISE
WOULD HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN…
But don’t we all need to forget in order to remember?
FOREMOST
Photography is an on-going love story
A love story with life, nature, people.
An insatiable curiosity
energizes my gaze.
And this is it!
THE GAZE!
I do not need any expensive sophisticated cameras
I need EYES!
The camera
is just an extension of my gaze
In this article, I am sharing with you different kinds of images, all stemming from a primordial retinal immediacy and an orgasmic sense of estheticism. Whether figurative, non-figurative, descriptive, narrative, nonsensical, focusing on composition, emotions, pleasures or pains, whether black and white or in color, my photos resonate with authenticity and humility.
I am never trying to impress, to create in order to sell, just looking and seeing, and most importantly SHARING.
As you look at and see my photos, ask yourself WHAT IS IT? Or HOW-WHAT DO I FEEL?
The image is yours!
Béa Aaronson PhD
Webpage
Atelier Taller Gallery
64 San Jorge, Colonia San Antonio
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
(415) 152 02 36
WhatsApp (415) 153 21 78
IN LIFE,
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE, EVERYTHING IS EXPERIENCE
Baruch SPINOZA
EVERYTHING IS BUT A PASSAGE
Michel de MONTAIGNE
DANCE YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE THE MUSIC
Béa AARONSON
Videos:
Power Point lecture live on Bohemians, Gypsies, Gitanos, Rom, Roma, Romani: Myth, Art, Reality
Trailer movie Observar Las Aves
Director Andrea Martinez Crowther
Protagonist Béa Aaronson
Text and collages published in the International Philosophical platform RHUTHMOS
Funded and directed by Pascal Michon
Pasiones Profundas Humans on my phone
By Gregor Collins (The Accidental Caregiver)
Amigos The Life Dance
Collages by Béa Aaronson
Music written and performed by Chico Sanchez and Jorge Gonzalez
Ars poetica dysraphic poetry
Impressionism lecture excerpts
The Thing is...Ode to Baudelaire
Hanka and the Magic Red Umbrella live
International Storytelling Festival of San Miguel)
Video about yours truly, life and art
Cages, keys, trees, scarves, gloves and books...among other things....
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Béa Aaronson was born in Paris. She is a self-taught multimedia artist (painter, sculptor, welder, collagist, photographer), a published poet, author, and art critic, an international lecturer and independent scholar, as well as a stage performer and movie actress.
She holds a Honors degree in History of Art, with a thesis on Gustave Moreau A Mystical World, an MA in French Literature with a thesis on Charles Baudelaire entitled Baudelaire Le Sang: Homopoeisis et Blessure, an essay on the symbolism of Blood and the Wound in The Flowers of Evil, and a PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature with a dissertation on Marcel Proust, The Bark and The Sap: A Midrashic Reading of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, focusing on the Jewish Kabalistic dimension of In Search of Lost Time.
She has published many essays, poems, articles, drawings, paintings and photographs in various magazines, journals and encyclopedias, such as Found Object in New York, Deus Loci in Baltimore, Tessera in Canada, The Review of Francophone Literature in Amsterdam, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Jewish Writers in London, and Polyphony in Charleston. She published and illustrated her first book in 1998, Baudelaire-Miller Sexual Squalor in Paris, which is now the property of Harvard's Private book collection.
Aaronson has exhibited her work in
the FIAC in Paris and Strasbourg;
Galerie de l'Europe, rue de Seine Paris
the Chateau de Sade for the French designer Pierre Cardin;
the International Art Fairs of Miami and Beirut;
the National Gallery of Art in Cape Town, South Africa;
the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC;
in Israel, Mexico, and the United States of America.
She was the official Piccolo Spoleto poster artist, in 1989, 2001, and 2005, and also created posters for The Alliance Française and the Jewish Cultural Center of Charleston, SC.
Her creative journey is an adventure of the senses, a synesthesia of energies and media… Beyond frames, beyond categories.
bea_aaronson@hotmail.com
415 152 02 36
www.artlifebea.com
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