Samuel Boudaud

(France)
Contact: samboudaud@yahoo.fr
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“So is it good or bad to hope?”

artscum.org: Who are you?

Sami: A guy who does what he can to get ahead in life and paints to find meaning in it.

artscum.org: Darkness is not only the absence of light. What is lurking in the shadows (of our mind)?!

Sami: Light and shadow don’t exist without each other: a gray square on a black background is light, the same gray square on a white background is shadow. It’s all a question of relative perception. Interpretation differs from one person to another… The dark part of our spirit is simply that part of ourselves which is considered negative by society and should be hidden.

artscum.org: What is the most important taboo in art?

Sami: The themes of nudity, sexuality, violence and religion have been widely dealt with in art, but what seems to me to be taboo today is what art itself has become, a tool for speculation, a financial investment that deviates from its original purpose: to express a part of what makes us human via an original prism.

artscum.org: Why is the beauty in ugliness so fatal?

Sami: Art is the expression of a form of humanity, something common to us all, and in this way beauty in ugliness reflects a part of our own ugliness. Either we accept to look it in the face and appreciate the beauty of being able to perceive and be touched by it, or we reject it and it becomes ugliness.

artscum.org: The world seems to become more and more a violent, unkind place. Greed and egoism seems to be the only impulse of any change. Did mankind still have the chance to build a peaceful, sustainable world for every living and feeling being or would it be better if somebody dispose everything in the sewer of the evolutionary failure?

Sami: I don’t recognize myself in today’s world, but each person’s perception of this world is unique, depending on his or her analytical prism. We can focus on the shadow or on the light. I think it’s better to live in hope of that light, at the risk of great disillusionment. So is it good or bad to hope? I don’t know. It’ll just be the story of mankind, which isn’t much on the scale of the universe.