June 10^th 2019 | Julia Becerra. Two Artists. One bridge

I had gone to the #consuladocolombianony  @CancilleriaCol to participate in the opening reception for the work of the Artist, Monica Armel.  Her Contemporary Art exposition Symphony in Silence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwNY323SXU), drew attention from a community beyond the Colombian NYC Residents.  The name of each piece was interesting as it expressed what the artist felt when painting them (ie. Revelation, two faces oneself, etc)

 During my time there I took upon to chat with some of the people admiring the exhibition, and I asked them, “did they all or did any of them see what the artist hoped to portray?”

Their answer was “NO,” which I think it made the art exhibit even more successful, since as Monica said when I interviewed her, she wanted to know what each piece would awake in each person.  From my point of view, she wanted to have a bridge between her paintings and each person perception of it.  One note to play in a personal and silence symphony.

In the process of talking to the other people in the reception, I had the lucky opportunity to chat with Mitchell Brozinski, who besides inviting me to his art exhibition – (Photography) taking place on a Saturday in Kingston-, he shared with me some of his work.  I was thankful and amazed!  As a nature lover, and a person permanently connected to the intricate and inconsistent feelings rain falling brings to my soul, I could not help but admire his work.

Mitchell has for many years spent time photographing the rain, what each drop looks like when falling, all in different scenarios: in a busy city, in a crowded street, in a quiet forest, etc.

Mitchell sees rain as a layer between us and whatever it is behind it. His interest in seeing how a person’s light works off, and how is expressed in objects is manifested in his work, http://www.allowinglightphotography.com.

I invite you to take time to check his work in Instagram @mitchelbrozinsky or in person at his next exhibit TBA.  Do so, and you could see the artist inner and outer alignment through his work, just the way he perceives it, just the way he wants it.

His work as expressed in his own words, is a very personal journey – finding the beauty in the world and exploring his vision beyond the original photographic capture.  “Beauty heals, inspires, and brings loving and harmony to us. Allowing ourselves to touch beauty is a way to inner peace, which I see as a step on the road to peace int he world”. 

I agree with Mitchell, as for me, rain itself is an interesting subject.  Besides the initial thought or emotion that brings out depending on the circumstances (During a vacation in the mountain, At a honeymoon in the Caribbean, walking in the city and getting splashed by a car when dressed in all white, or on a way to work and  delayed by it, or  …) and I mean beyond the countless scenarios, there is always something magical or perhaps mysterious about the raindrops,  and what you could see through them. 

Just check this photograph of the Brooklyn bridge taken by Mitchell. 

It seems a work of fiction!  Is there really a bridge there? And is it really the famous Brooklyn Bridge?

What are those “ghosts” hanging, dancing or floating around it?  Are the lights themselves confabulating with the raindrops to fool us with different images or is it just our perception of them. 

This is a photograph, but it could well be a painting. If it was the later, I could ask what was the artist trying to portray here?   Since it is a photograph, what could we ask? I would like to read your questions, as I have my own.

Guessing the shapes through glass exposed to the rain, feeling the sensations woken up when seeing the rain fall while staying inside. Enjoying the memories of happily and carelessly running under the rain on a summer day, it is all there, but it could well not be. After all it is rain, it washes everything away and when it stops at some point, what  we saw, or what we think we saw is not there, not in the shape it was anyway.

Mitchell Brozinsky’s rain art project, is an invitation to see the world from a different perspective, to give back to the rain the magic it possesses, to welcome the senses, the imagination and for the next time we watch the rain, for us to create our own work of fiction, our own photograph to be kept in our minds, as we build our own rain story project.  I have already created  my own, when meeting for the first time with these two strangers, with these artists, that have left me with one lasting feeling: the desire to explore what may well be right in front of my eyes, especially if I can’t see it clearly because of the raindrops falling.

I bet you have a few interesting rain related stories, and I would love to read about them.  Send me an email or write a comment on my blog.

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