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Maggie
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“That's what's so disheartening about the new Chaldean museum in Detroit. It's wonderful that they even did such a thing..the first SERIOUS attempt and I know they'll do it better than Norman Solkha and Nimrod's "museums". But I'm dismayed that they're going to fill it with copies of originals from the Louvre and anywhere else they can get them. Rather than signify pride in their heritage this seems to indicate doubt and insecurity...anyone would ask, "have you done nothing in all these years that you must place plaster copies of three thousand year old pieces in what you call a museum?" “ Don’t be disheartened. Our people are years behind other cultures. Let them fill up the museum with copies for now. It’s a start. Once they have seen these images over and over, they will reach satiation, and some of them will begin to create their own images out of their own struggles and dialectics. ”There are Chaldean artists living and breathing today who are the heirs of the ancients ONLY if their own people validate that claim...and the best way to prove Chaldeans of today are the descendants of the ancients is to SHOW the work they have continued doing up to the present. “ That’s why it’s important to support new and upcoming artists. These young ones are terrified because they know our people don’t value art. They think it doesn’t feed them. They are always thinking in physical terms of survival. What they don’t realize is the culture cannot survive if there are no new images validating their new existence. ”Along these same lines I recall having many arguments with "experts" who insisted that Hammurabi HAD to wear what he is shown wearing on that famous stelle...as if the Great King of Kings, King of the Four Corners Of The World...had ONE outfit in his closet. Yet they felt it was sacrilege on my part to IMAGINE another set of sandals, or belt...taken from a host of details you just know they used on many other items NOT found yet. But there isn't that real belief, like I have, that we are INDEED those people and therefore the ONLY ones today who could know what an Assyrian does TODAY.’ I recently took a bold step and invited a young Assyrian fashion designer from Sweden to put on a fashion show. He was worried that our people would not accept what he had done to the costumes our kings and queens wore. Knowing our people’s mentality, I boasted about him for weeks through a very aggressive campaign. They came out in droves to see what I was ranting about and their curiosity paid off as they got much more than what they bargained for. They are still talking about those costumes, and he’s being invited all over the world, as a result. --------------------- |
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