BRUNO CATALANO , EXILE AND EMPTINESS OF THE SOUL

                                   

             (Bruno Catalano Born 1960)

   

EXILE  AND  EMPTINESS  OF THE SOUL ....

   “Les Voyageurs  "  or 'The Voyagers '  by french Sculptor   Bruno Catalano...

My interpretation of this master piece goes like this...

" This sculpture is also the story of an exile. A brief case with bare belongings . A sea of insecurity surrounds him. This vast sea is  clearly visible from missing vital parts of his body  . For  onlookers it looks as if , this man has No heart ,No soul.

 Isn't this  emptiness of the soul  felt by people who leave their homes and hearths under threats of physical elmination, Religious Intolerance , War , supression ,genocide or simply to escape starvation ?

Such faces possess Limbs  to stand erect or  to exist physically. Alas !   Quite often, you experience  the soul engulfing  emptiness in alien lands..

This is one among ten bronze statues put on display at waterfront  Marseilles, France.This one in particular is called  “Le Grand Van Gogh"

Is this the  price  that an exile pays for becoming a  so called 'World Citizen ' ?

And in an alien land, every exile finds himself misfit for joys and sorrows.

I conclude with "clothes"  a mini poem written by the exiled  kurdish poet Sherko Bekas:

(Clothes)

Bekas used to say,

“Each joy I wear
Its sleeves are either
Too short or too long,
Too loose or too tight
On me.
And each sorrow I wear
Fits as if it were made for me
Wherever I am.”"

(Avtar Mota)



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