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Abstract Has No Limits

© David A Simpson.

I was watching an artist at work. He was a street vendor creating works of art while a small crowd gathered to appreciate his talent. Using spray paints and stencils he added layer after layer of paint to then scrape and manipulate the surface to reveal the colours (spelt the English way before the spelling detectives get on my case) beneath mixing and merging. Working from a picture in his head this artist created birds, trees, dolphins and many other wonderful images, his abstract, simple but intensely complex approach was a skill he made seem easy but was obviously a natural talent. His work may never be given the privilege of hanging in a famous gallery along side De Vinci, Constable or Picasso but it had to be equal in skill and complexity to their work, just created in a different time and only appreciated by the people passing on the street. Maybe when this artist is dead and his work lives on his talent will be noticed. It is sad but true that so many artists, musicians and authors are not noticed or fully appreciated while they are living. Musical compositions, paintings and books are revered after their creator has died. So why do so many people toil away the hours creating, inventing and manipulating paints, music and words for the appreciation of the few?

Writers of Science Fiction must fall into the category of the unsung hero's of the literary world. They can create complex, wonderfull,colourfull (English again!) abstract novels, novels with no limits or boundaries, which can incorporate suspense, mystery, horror, futuristic, or reality disguised into their story line. They can include the mush, romance, action and the totally impossible in thrilling action packed racy novels. The only limits are the abstract abilities of the writer to invent and manipulate their knowledge of language, grammar (editors are my hero's) and at times scientific knowledge to weave together their own creation which will take the reader on a roller coaster ride of new and wonderful worlds and situations. It sounds to good to be true, making so much effort for so many but in reality to be appreciated by so few because the world today is manipulated by the few who make the decisions for the majority. The new and abstract works devised and created today are at the mercy of the buyers and promoters still looking for names which sell and overlooking the new creations which will probably be revealed in the future but written in the past.

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