Lea_Art List
0005 - Grand Bloom
Everyone studies the tense faces of competitors in international harp or piano contests. The camera focuses on their pressed lips. One can almost hear their hearts throbbing with the sound of their music. And we relish the sight of their bowed heads and efforts to smile as the interviewer interrogates them on why they failed to win. So long as there is a crowd thirsty for such bloodshed, there will be competitions. However, competitions are designed for equals, for people who aspire to identical achievements. They do not apply to creative people who struggle with their own talents and not against the capacities of others; who seek self-fulfillment through individual creativity, not through testing themselves against someone else's achievement. These are the people who arrive at real achievements — and without bloodshed.
Lea Majaro-Mintz
