Art: Pedrera Steps II by Linda Chapman
AN UNEXAMINED LIFE
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
–Socrates
Who’d seek to deduce truly unique views?
You’d need to refuse routines, to renew
youthful curiosity’s urgency
to fully see Socrates’ certainty:
He knew he knew nothing more than the fact
he knew he knew nothing. More than that fact
was his insistent inquisitiveness
glimpsed in this dictum he’s given us, which
seems to me to mean: “to undo untruths,
be questions’ pupils. Not just answers’ masters…”
About the author:
The poetry of Peter Arvan Manos has been published in Yellow Chair Review, Eunoia Review, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, The New York Times, Atlanta Review, Provo Canyon Review, Avocet Poetry Journal, Parody Poetry Journal, Prolific Press, and the Elohi Gaduji Journal, among others.
Peter has written two poetry chapbooks, Walt Whitman’s Wolves, and Myriads. He also authors a monthly column on renewable sources of electricity in Transmission & Distribution World Magazine.
Peter grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by shores that were beautiful or horrid depending on the tides, the wind, and whether or not you were looking toward or away from the sewage plant or garbage dump. He remains happily confused about the distinctions we make between nature and technology.
In the artist’s words:
Linda Chapman.
I am an abstract photographic artist living in London .After graduating in art photography, I pursued a successful career as a commercial photographer, working in fine art, theatre and music. In between working, I enjoyed exhibiting my personal work, including exhibitions around the UK and abroad.
About 5 years ago I decided to work full time on my art.
My artworks are a visual representation of how my mind often naturally interprets things I see or hear, into complex stories, full of colour and abstract hidden detail. Although I use a digital camera, I use only the natural elements, light, reflections and refraction at its most colourful and playful, without manipulation. The results are reflected layers, abstracted from everyday life.
I have a great interest in architecture and the city and how to view the mundane in a new light. I believe that my artworks have an ability to change how an area can feel and how you see it, uncovering extraordinary views not often seen from day to day. Glass is such a beautiful material. Urban windows offer such fascinating frames, showing a representation, giving away so much but never quite telling the whole truth. What is inside? What is outside?
I love to suggest to viewers that we all take a moment longer and abandon our sense of urban reality and question what your eyes and mind can really see.