28.7.08
Chere Danielle,
We are back home in Ashland, finally, after weeks away and then another trip to visit our families in Los Angeles. I have been thinking about you, about your massive project to create a unique front to the Aubagne train station. What that can mean to Aubagne and to the world of art delights me. It will be a truly original use of art as an enhancement to architecture, not to detract from it, but to embellish it. I can see people from all over the world flocking to this small town in Provence, marveling at how far thinking and enlightened the town hierarchy must have been to envision the effect this commission would have on their town's place in the history of art.
David and I left you to go immediately to Nice, where we spent several hours among your beautiful work in the Musee International d'Art Naif Anatole Jakovsky. As you said to us, seeing your work in this setting was very different. In your home or even in your studio, we see each piece as part of a larger whole. In fact it is often true that the individual pieces are so much part of the whole that it isn't always possible to get one's brain to see the individual piece of art apart from the whole. Each compliments and helps create the others, and thus they are joined.
But just as that experience is exciting and joyful, the experience of seeing your work individually was glorious! Each piece stood on its own; each one represented itself uniquely. And while it was obvious that the same artist had created each piece of art--be it painted or embroidered or created from clay or wood or mosaic--it was a delight to see that each piece stood alone as beautiful and unusual and brilliant in its own right. I loved the choices the curator made, although I'm quite sure that other choices could have been made that would have been equally brilliant.
When we entered the museum, we asked a young attendant for directions to your exhibit. The young woman, C Z, told us it was up the stairs. She spoke to us in broken English, but I could hear the French in what she said next: "Oh, I love Danielle Jacqui. She is fantastique!" Like so many of us, CC was completely taken with your work because in it she could feel the freedom and magnificence of spirit each of your pieces represents.
Dear Danielle, we hope you will continue with your train station project in good health and with much renewed energy each day. Please give our regards to your assistant Dominique. We enjoyed meeting her. I have included these pictures for you.
With much love,
Ruth
We are back home in Ashland, finally, after weeks away and then another trip to visit our families in Los Angeles. I have been thinking about you, about your massive project to create a unique front to the Aubagne train station. What that can mean to Aubagne and to the world of art delights me. It will be a truly original use of art as an enhancement to architecture, not to detract from it, but to embellish it. I can see people from all over the world flocking to this small town in Provence, marveling at how far thinking and enlightened the town hierarchy must have been to envision the effect this commission would have on their town's place in the history of art.
David and I left you to go immediately to Nice, where we spent several hours among your beautiful work in the Musee International d'Art Naif Anatole Jakovsky. As you said to us, seeing your work in this setting was very different. In your home or even in your studio, we see each piece as part of a larger whole. In fact it is often true that the individual pieces are so much part of the whole that it isn't always possible to get one's brain to see the individual piece of art apart from the whole. Each compliments and helps create the others, and thus they are joined.
But just as that experience is exciting and joyful, the experience of seeing your work individually was glorious! Each piece stood on its own; each one represented itself uniquely. And while it was obvious that the same artist had created each piece of art--be it painted or embroidered or created from clay or wood or mosaic--it was a delight to see that each piece stood alone as beautiful and unusual and brilliant in its own right. I loved the choices the curator made, although I'm quite sure that other choices could have been made that would have been equally brilliant.
When we entered the museum, we asked a young attendant for directions to your exhibit. The young woman, C Z, told us it was up the stairs. She spoke to us in broken English, but I could hear the French in what she said next: "Oh, I love Danielle Jacqui. She is fantastique!" Like so many of us, CC was completely taken with your work because in it she could feel the freedom and magnificence of spirit each of your pieces represents.
Dear Danielle, we hope you will continue with your train station project in good health and with much renewed energy each day. Please give our regards to your assistant Dominique. We enjoyed meeting her. I have included these pictures for you.
With much love,
Ruth
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