Topic: The Persistence of Loss
The Persistence of Loss lingers in our minds for years, as long as we are alive and have the opportunity to experience and feel the world, and even enjoy it.
Because one of the most important things we learn is to enjoy life and live it.
As we walk our path, there is this background, that remains in some back lobe of our brain and reminds us of itself.
Even in the moments when we are most joyful, there is this constant reminder that the moment is just that—a moment. The future has arrived, and the moment is lost. It has flown by, and the persistence of loss is just a few seconds away.
Art has always been inspired by other art, as one great artist said. The theme is inspired not only by life itself but also by a song from Nine Inch Nails – „The Persistence of Loss“, and the final monologue in the movie „The Great Beauty“, where part of the words spoken by the great Toni Servillo are:
„This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It’s all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah… Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don’t deal with what lies beyond. Therefore… let this novel begin. After all… it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick.“
We hope with this open call to have either encouraged or confirmed that you have something to show the world through your photographs.
Even a moment, already lost, yet captured and made eternal through art.
