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Futility

5/21/2019

Bear in mind that laws don’t restrict human behavior so much as they change the economics of it. The intended prohibition of a behavior will prove futile if new channels of distribution or accessibility brings the activity into an acceptable window of risk, or if new technologies render restrictive laws obsolete or ineffective. The inherent weakness of authoritarianism is that it provides an economic incentive to develop alternative markets or technologies that deliver the prohibited products or services by unanticipated means.

The more “black & white” is a forced perspective the more subtile becomes the shades of grey.

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5/21/2019 01:10:24 pm

Pretty concise and power-packed Curt. Economics controls everything in this society - including "justice."

Curtis Hendricks

All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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