After my flatmate and I went to the bill viola show, we've been increasingly interested in his ideas and works. We just finished watching this interview and it was very profound to get a brief window into how he progressed in video work and how he processes confrontations in life.
- the part where he was talking about how his mother died in front of his and his brother's eyes, the most profoundly beautiful and sad thing, mysterious beyond belief.. that thing on the bed was no longer his mother. cameras are the keepers of the souls.
- the part about st john the cross, and how viola was so moved by it. being tortured and imprisoned and managing to escape, but not being mad at the people who did it. it was in there he wrote his most famous 'the spiritual canticle,' it was a turning point for viola as he realised he can now be unafraid to do the work that he wanted and how he wanted it.
- ever since he was a child he kept a constant dialogue in writing with himself.
the thing about 'cameras are the keepers of the souls' resonated with me, I realised it is so true. I have always been capturing everything in my life, down to the mundane because I know I forget easily and I am so scared of forgetting the good And the bad. our minds are fragile and memories will live on forever digitally. at least I have this to look back on. I might think more on this and use old footage I have to piece in my video work. hm.
- the part where he was talking about how his mother died in front of his and his brother's eyes, the most profoundly beautiful and sad thing, mysterious beyond belief.. that thing on the bed was no longer his mother. cameras are the keepers of the souls.
- the part about st john the cross, and how viola was so moved by it. being tortured and imprisoned and managing to escape, but not being mad at the people who did it. it was in there he wrote his most famous 'the spiritual canticle,' it was a turning point for viola as he realised he can now be unafraid to do the work that he wanted and how he wanted it.
- ever since he was a child he kept a constant dialogue in writing with himself.
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| http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1542-1591,_Ioannes_a_Cruce,_A_Spiritual_Canticle_Of_The_Soul,_EN.pdf |