tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15519003.post7662155934943961344..comments2023-07-18T06:17:25.789-05:00Comments on Mit, Mitter, Mittany - It's Me!: A Few Fine ThingsMitMoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05748735568467215959noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15519003.post-6395235142805751602008-08-19T20:08:00.000-05:002008-08-19T20:08:00.000-05:00By the way - I absolutely love the picture you hav...By the way - I absolutely love the picture you have here of the "arriving storm". It is surreal !<BR/><BR/>And I agree with Chris's favorite quote: it's not what you see in the picture, it what you see in reality AFTER you've seen the picture !" !!!!! That's the reality ! tpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15519003.post-16537599819274609162008-08-18T21:09:00.000-05:002008-08-18T21:09:00.000-05:00I've been thinking about this a lot myself and the...I've been thinking about this a lot myself and the only thing I can offer is this: authentic is imperfect and warm; it is what it is, comfortable with that, and it offers you a relationship with that. Kitsch is "just so," cold, and demands that you interact with it on its terms, not on yours, that to be involved with it you must change rather than finding the mutual contours where you fit Woodstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17226674158416350645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15519003.post-7180087396754629342008-08-18T17:52:00.000-05:002008-08-18T17:52:00.000-05:00Sounds like an amazing day... and you know I am in...Sounds like an amazing day... and you know I am in full agreement on the <I>authenticity</I> factor. Same thing applies for me anywhere in the country. America has become so architecturally fake it is disgusting.<BR/><BR/>I love the analogy you make between the cowboy & calf illustration and your own writing. Art should do that. It's why we need to go to galleries and museums.<BR/><BR/>Christopher Paquettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059036599070455568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15519003.post-85659806503021610992008-08-16T19:25:00.000-05:002008-08-16T19:25:00.000-05:00I haardly know where to start on this Blog - it's ...I haardly know where to start on this Blog - it's absolutely wonderful !!! And the pics with it are spectacular - wish I was with you !!!!!! <BR/><BR/>You certainly have captured the 'soul' of the desert - and I'm sooo sorry you moved away !! I want to go back again, soon !<BR/><BR/>Well --- if Collected Horizons are all Chris's works, he has such a gift !!!! I love his works - the subjects, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com