Mexican Secrets - e-Artbook

Mexican Secrets - e-Artbook
by Roland Salazar Rose

Mexican Secrets—is that it? Simply divulge what you are about in words and images sir, walk away from the pit you have dug for your self in life? No, I think, not!

For if you must carry secrets as baggage in your journey down life’s pathway you must recognize as well that it isn’t easy to toss the secrets aside, walk away, just as it is equally difficult to schlep them forward. It appears impossible to rid yourself of the meaning you have placed on them—indeed, stamped on them—they continue to ensnare you: another burdensome self-inflicted piece of baggage.

No matter what means of action you take you live with the past secrets in the here and now. You must shoulder them and bear on. As ‘life is for living’ you may in fact encumber your thirst for it by tasting the bitter pill it possesses.
—Roland Salazar Rose


Collaboration can become a kind of investigation of the emotional possibilities between the two forms. The brevity of the quatrains and the electricity of the small but potent images make up a sort of force field where the two forms are replenishing each other, as in good conversation, or between bass and piano in a jazz duet.

As Robert Creeley says regarding his own collaborations with painters, the response to image is not necessarily about conscious understanding, but of ‘picking up the vibes’ that the image generates. As in all potent art, the unconscious enters in, and we get an intuitive play that perhaps startles or gathers responsive momentum or a dance between the two forms. There is a mystery involved that partakes of light and sound, image and response, rhythm and joy, word and visual idea.
—Bill Pearlman

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