Is It Possible For An Artist To Create Artworks That Could Clearly And Convincingly Show That Real Love Once Existed?
But that’s one of my pursuits.
I’m trying to create those kinds of artworks, and I’m trying to publicize those kinds of artworks that have been created by others – the kind of artworks that could help anyone understand the quality of love, caring, sensitivity, learning, and change that once existed.
I’m trying to create and show the kind of artworks that could reveal to anyone the potential for love and caring that has been lost.
But when love and affection are lost, often the good changes, learning, and sensitivities continue.
My theory is that love rarely disappears.
Love may go away, fearing it should hide, but that does not mean the love subsides.
The above cover photograph is by Clare Park.
Love that hides often does not lose its intensity, relevance, or helpfulness.
This photograph is by Mark Morelli, Caroline’s longtime friend and companion, who Caroline married in May of 2002, after she had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in April of 2002. Caroline died on June 4, 2002.
Sometimes we sing about our loves because we don’t think it is healthy for our loves to be relegated.
The above two images are: 1) the book cover for Caroline Knapp’s excellent introspective book, “Appetites,” and 2) an image of Caroline with her dog.
A person’s art is often their heart on their sleeve. A person’s art may often help you understand a person better.
Reading about Caroline Knapp’s cognitive thought processes that formed her “Appetites” and lack thereof may help you understand other women with “absence of want” issues. Reading her book “Pack of Two” may also help you understand other incredibly smart women like Caroline. If you read the books, read them as you should read every book: question everything Caroline says and look for any internal reasoning contradictions. (If you’d like to read a few brief review comments about each book I wrote on Amazon under the username “One More Option,” then click on the links above in this paragraph.)
We’ve only had one Caroline Knapp, and no one else could have created her unique beautiful body of literary essays and non-fiction. Our world is better for her not being silent about her perceived weaknesses. And we are better off to have heard the few times she found a way to express and publicize her wants.
After observing her identical twin sister giving birth at the age of 41, Caroline wrote these words:
“I pictured that tiny infant, nursing hungrily at the body that created and sheltered her and will now guide her into the wider world, and I said a prayer for her, I prayed for change. I whispered to the universe, Let her be filled.” - Caroline Knapp’s final words in her book “Appetites.”
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really beautiful! she seemed like one of a kind.