Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with M. Cecilia São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil

Yes, I am also isolating at home during this coronavirus quarantine.  In the first few days I thought I would have time and tranquility to dedicate myself solely and exclusively to images.  So many jobs started, so many ideas that need a continuation, that I was even liking the idea.  I would have more time to continue the embroidery work on the photographs, liquid watercolor painting and collage with images and I wanted to create a new series reinterpreting classic works in these days of isolation.  But as the days went by I realized that a series of problems, that are inherent to this unusual situation, took up every second of my day.

The style of art that I am creating is always changing because I set out to create something different whenever I want to say something new.  It’s my way of creating series independent of each other like chapters in a larger storybook.

I believe that at this moment when we are living full of uncertainties about what will happen, be it in relation to health, the economy, politics, security, interpersonal relationships etc … in our lives, when anxiety grows inside us, it is too early to explain how my art has changed.  But I already know in advance that, as in all difficult moments, the reflection will be printed on the images.

I don’t think that inspiration is something that happens only and exclusively involuntarily.  On the contrary.  It is necessary to seek from our bowels what moves us, what corrodes us, hurts us, and where the pain is greatest.  For me, art is not composed of frivolities or small joys.  For me, art is only complete and comprehensive if it took a piece of me to exist.  Art needs to be dense to make sense.

Art needs to be charged, nebulous, and full-bodied to make sense.  And for that to be so, I needed not only to learn to search within myself, what moves me.  But in addition to searching, I had to learn to translate this feeling into lines, shapes and colors.

Creating for me is always the best way to look inside and thus decipher the messages that my alter ego and my unconscious are trying to convey to me.  Creation for me needs to be accompanied by a single song playing over and over and over in a kind of hypnotic mantra, which has the incredible ability to take from me what I didn’t know existed.  That is the healing power that I know art has.  When, after a while, I turn my gaze to what was created, and I perceive the reflection in the art of my momentary nature, I understand myself better

No, I don’t think that making or promoting art brings a unity of peace.  It is different!  Sharing art is opening my little black book, where everything that hurts me is written, for everyone.  That is why many artists find it difficult to sell or deliver their art onwards, I think.  But over time we have learned that the vast majority of viewers do not understand what we are talking about, and understand only what their subjective world translates, which gives a certain impassivity and tranquility in being naked before everyone.

The coronavirus is putting our system to the highest test.  Will we continue with our institutions and relations as before?

 In very few days of confinement, it seems to me clearer than ever that those who insist on showing authority and as such present themselves, are exactly the most insignificant.  Those who shout and demand deference with vehement complaining for respect, are the first to fail to obey simple rules of conduct and good coexistence. And I am not referring to politicians.

 My great-grandfather used to say a phrase that became commonplace in the family.

 «The adult from the height of his superiority who is unable to hear the younger voices, will learn only in his old age, that excellence is in the humility of learning.  »

 An invisible virus has placed an important part of the world in isolation.  An exile in their homes, an exile from normal social contact.  But I clearly see a virus spreading, capable of reversing the established rules and teaching what is needed and which has long been forgotten.

Thanks to Joanne Carter for this opportunity.  I am honored and pleased to participate on The App Whisperer, and very glad to be this awesome gallery ♥️

My Deepest Gratitude always 

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