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Please tell me what you think about this painting and the its description below. Thanks for you time!?

Click on the link below to view the painting and then read the description... Are the sentences connected logically? (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/imag0374h.jpg/) This work contains a collection of symbolic elements that have had a significant effect on my life in one way or another. Some of these symbols represent values held in common by most people as they cope with this global situation that we live in today, while other symbols represent personal values that I grew up with. Some of the symbols might just be a materialization of some sort of Utopian dream that I am trying to live in order to make my life better or to help me accept reality as it is. I will start with my favorite symbol, which is the suspension bridge. My fascination with suspension bridges began at early age when I fell in love with their aesthetics. I was especially fascinated by the shape and color of the Golden Gate Bridge. This fascination is hard to explain, but it is linked to my love for the art of architecture, and that is the reason for the setting that I chose, which is a room with two tables, a painting, a mirror, and a balcony. I chose the suspension bridge to be seen from the balcony because it has always been my dream to live in San Francisco, in a room overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The second symbol that I find to be unique and interesting is in the painting on the right, which depicts a woman tight-roping near the sea. This picture is the work of the brilliant contemporary artist Janine Antoni , who practiced tight roping at one point in her life and who produced this striking piece of work, showing herself walking on the horizon. In the documentary "Art:21," produced by the PBS, Antoni says: “I practiced tight roping for about an hour a day, and after about a week I started to feel like I’m now getting my balance. I started to notice that it wasn’t that I was getting more balanced, but that I was getting more comfortable with being out of balance. Rather than getting nerves and over compensating that I could just compensate enough, and I thought I wish I could do that in my life.”1 Her deep and thoughtful words moved me as soon as I saw the picture and I started to think about how she took a basic practice, like tight roping, and turned it into a mechanism through which she learned how to cope with her everyday routine. Antoni shot this beautiful picture of herself “walking on the horizon” in the Bahamas, where she grew up. I find her work fascinating, novel, and very thoughtful. It is interesting how some of us dream and how our utopian mind flies us from the land of the impossible to the land of the possible. It would be interesting if I could hang this picture in my room to remind myself that there is more to life than the narrow tube that I see life though sometimes. The third symbol is the peace symbol, which is a physical representation that I borrowed to materialize my desire to peacefully accept everyone and respect the world around me with its juxtaposition of beauty and ugliness. It signifies my childish cry to the world, asking it to accept me, or perhaps to just give me a chance, regardless of all the genetic flaws that I was born with that give me a different personality that is not well-perceived by everyone around me. The peace symbol, in my humble opinion, summarizes all the beautiful dreams that John Lennon imagined in his song, Imagine. Fourth is the anarchy symbol which also represents my childish protest against all the religious and political ideologies I was brought up to believe in or respect, even when they made no sense to me. I was born a free soul and I want to die a free soul, with no religious beliefs or political ideologies imposed upon me culturally. I put this symbol beside the peace symbol because to me they resonate together; you cannot ask for peace if you are not ready to rebel or rise above the rusty ideas with which you were raised. I placed the anarchy and peace symbols inside the flowers because to me they are ideas that flourish worldwide. The fifth symbol is the cat, which represents my desire to save an animal soul and give it a place in this world that we selfishly built only for ourselves, leaving little or no space in which other animals could enjoy their rights on Earth. For the last century the human population has been increasing exponentially, expanding into every inhabitable piece of land and destroying nature and earth. We humans have forgotten that not only buildings and cities build civilizations; our respect for the rights of animals and the beauty of nature can build the greatest of civilizations. I believe that man is obligated to save nature and its component parts, of which animals are an essential ingredient. The sixth symbol is the mirror on the left side. The mirror represents my struggle to attain perfection. A mirror plays a major part in the life of a person seeking physical perfection. This might not be what I am seeking, but I use

Public Comments

1. Upload the picture to http://www.wetcanvas.com and get some critique from the art community. Not sure that the long explanation is required. It might be better split into six different pictures and to be honest I'm not enamoured with the overall beige tone. The cat's cute though.
2. Nice symbolic art - but that view from your window is beyond reality - to get that view you'd have to be in the waters. Or is this in a lighthouse?