Dear young lovers,
I have been meaning to write to you for some time now or for even longer.
You don't know me, yet you once were me. Or rather, I was you.
Now you surround me and your presence warmly reminds me of something that is no more.
Dear young lovers, you are special. You are wonderful. I love that you exist and are here. I love that when you fall in love, as you so often and so quickly do, that you don't question or even entertain the thought that your love won't last forever. No, the feelings you feel are so strong and all consuming, that there is no space for anything else, so how could you entertain any other notion? Sure there are times where you are nervous and scared as all hell to love or even speak it's name, but when you do love, you love with all you have, with every iota of your being.You trust implicitly and you feel and believe that the moment will last forever and I love you for that.
Then as you get older, like me, the cynicism of experience, the many betrayals and heartbreaks, lead you to trust less and less each time. It leads you to never allowing yourself to feel love as uninhibitedly as you once did. In your ear whispers the voice of fear, always warning you, 'becareful' it says, 'you know you're only going to be hurt again!' Everything you say is more measured and restrained. You no longer speak straight from the heart, now each thought and feeling goes through a barrage of filters. You tentatively explore each response and are mindful that you may never be able to deliver or live up to the promises that you once so easily and so earnestly made. Promises and statements such as; 'I will always love you', 'our love will last forever', 'I could never love anyone else', or, 'I could never live without you'. When the truth is that you can live without them and you will love again. The truth is that each time you lose love and are hurt, you tend to love less, to trust less and to live less and less in the moment and more and more in fear of what hurt may come. Cynicism creeps in and slowly you start to mistrust, to be guarded and to think about your self more and your own needs, because experience has taught you that sooner or later this will end and it will once more just be you.
Don't get me wrong young lovers, I don't want you to stop. I don't want you to change one little thing about you or what you do. I want you to continue, forever, just like your love. Would you be surprised to hear that every time I see you I smile and feel alive again? You are a reminder of my past and of times that are no more. Thank you young lovers for being you, for being a wonderful reminder of how precious each moment is and how we do not have enough time in our short, short lives to waste living in fear or in a shroud of cynicism.
Dear young lovers
I wish you all the best and though I know it won't last, a part of me still hopes that it does,
if not not for you, then for all of us.
matthew.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
déchiré - part 2
For those that are not aware, often the aim of my photographs (such as the 'Brunswick st' ,'g.rd.' & 'déchiré ' series) is to bring attention to the beauty which lies hidden in our world. In particular, the beauty that exists in what society abhors and rejects.
Loosely translated from French, déchiré is 'torn'. Aided by Fiona, my personal French translator we searched and finally decided upon a word that we felt really captured the shared essence in this ongoing series of images. Why French? The translated word in French not only seemed to add to each piece in this series, but for the non-French speaking, they are momentarily freed from the prejudice that titles and in particular the loaded meaning in language, provides. I felt that for this series in particular, the viewer needed to engage with the piece and not be distracted by the English translation or have their experience imbued with the prejudice of the connotations of the word 'torn'.
These images, like any photograph are captured scenes, often tiny in scale and captured with a micro/marco lens. They are then enlarged and re-presented in a different context and scale which allows the beauty that exists to be better appreciated.
These images are all the result of tears, not by myself, but by others and/or by nature. It is a collaboration of sorts that is always shifting, always changing and always becoming something other. Most of these images now no longer exist, or have been drastically further altered. For my part, I feel I have captured the fleeting and transient beauty that was once ignored and now is no more.
'déchiré #45'
‘I never really understood what she meant,
when she said
"be free"’
déchiré #52 (2013)
‘The old masters’
déchiré #58 (2013)
‘weit öffnen’
déchiré #580 (2013)
déchiré #84 (2013)
déchiré #146 (2013)
all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Street Art - August 2013
I thought I would share a couple of images that I have captured over the past few months. I love that a casual stroll down the street can lead you across some interesting and often beautiful pieces of art.
Somewhere in High St, Northcote:
I saw this piece and smiled... I haven't heard this phrase in a while and it made me wonder if we really are 'up shit creek'.
Carlton, somewhere near the University:
Off Queens parade, North Fitzroy:
I love the feathers that are glued on and form the tutu.
Off Smith St, Collingwood:
This is a great door!
Near Brunswick St, Fitzroy:
Art is everywhere... even down smelly, disgusting and dangerous lanes.
Off Gertrude St, Fitzroy:
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013, art copyright the individual artists, whose names I know not.
Somewhere in High St, Northcote:
I saw this piece and smiled... I haven't heard this phrase in a while and it made me wonder if we really are 'up shit creek'.
Carlton, somewhere near the University:
Off Queens parade, North Fitzroy:
I love the feathers that are glued on and form the tutu.
Off Smith St, Collingwood:
This is a great door!
Near Brunswick St, Fitzroy:
Art is everywhere... even down smelly, disgusting and dangerous lanes.
Off Gertrude St, Fitzroy:
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013, art copyright the individual artists, whose names I know not.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Hottest 100 of the last 20 years.
A few weeks back, I blogged about good ol' Stacy breaking down and leaving myself and three friends stranded in country Victoria.. the soundtrack to our day was the Triple J Hottest 100 of the past 20 years. Now dear Stacy has gone to the big car yard in the sky.. well not really.. she got too expensive to keep so I dumped her! Anyway, as an ode to dear Stacy and the times she and I spent together, I felt this blog post on the Triple j hottest 100 of the last 20 years, was fitting.
Who would have believed that the Hottest 100 on Triple J had been going for twenty years! It had been going a few years earlier than this and I recall it well, but back then you could vote for any song from any time. The first two polls saw Joy Division's 'Love will tear us apart' at number one. The third poll saw that tune piqued by Nirvana's 'Smells like teen spirit'. Probably realising that not much would change in the poll each year, they then decided to make it an annual poll of that years music. And now, here we are... twenty years on and Triple J have decided to celebrate and countdown the hottest tunes of the past 20 years.
'Cut and pasted' from trusty Wikipedia, Here is the list :
Charted number, Track name, Artist name, Country artists comes from and year of release.
#95
Ben Lee-' Cigarettes will kill you' (Australian version)-1998:
#90
Silverchair- 'Straight lines'-2007:
#88
Something for Kate- 'Monsters'- 2001:
#73
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros- 'Home'- 2009:
#39
Nirvana- 'Heart shaped box'- 1993:
#28
Red Hot Chilli peppers- 'Scar tissue'-1999:
#26
System of a down- 'Chop Suey!'-2001:
#12
Goyte- 'Hearts a mess'-2006:
#3
Jeff Buckley- 'Last Goodbye'-1994:
#1
Oasis- 'Wonderwall'-1995:
Rust In Peace dear Stacy.
xx
Who would have believed that the Hottest 100 on Triple J had been going for twenty years! It had been going a few years earlier than this and I recall it well, but back then you could vote for any song from any time. The first two polls saw Joy Division's 'Love will tear us apart' at number one. The third poll saw that tune piqued by Nirvana's 'Smells like teen spirit'. Probably realising that not much would change in the poll each year, they then decided to make it an annual poll of that years music. And now, here we are... twenty years on and Triple J have decided to celebrate and countdown the hottest tunes of the past 20 years.
'Cut and pasted' from trusty Wikipedia, Here is the list :
Charted number, Track name, Artist name, Country artists comes from and year of release.
#95
Ben Lee-' Cigarettes will kill you' (Australian version)-1998:
#90
Silverchair- 'Straight lines'-2007:
#88
Something for Kate- 'Monsters'- 2001:
#73
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros- 'Home'- 2009:
#39
Nirvana- 'Heart shaped box'- 1993:
#28
Red Hot Chilli peppers- 'Scar tissue'-1999:
#26
System of a down- 'Chop Suey!'-2001:
#12
Goyte- 'Hearts a mess'-2006:
#3
Jeff Buckley- 'Last Goodbye'-1994:
#1
Oasis- 'Wonderwall'-1995:
Rust In Peace dear Stacy.
xx
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