Tabitha Suzuma
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Re:Live Forum: Tabitha Suzuma - 2007/05/31 20:13
Nikki Gamble wrote:
Tabitha Suzuma wrote:
Beauty and pain have always been intermingled for me. Great beauty has often caused me great pain. Occasionally, there is a kind of beauty to be find in certain types of pain.
That's interesting, Tabitha. I wonder if you could give us an example of what you mean here. My mind is jumping back to Joanna's discussion about self harm, and in that context the notion that pain has its own beauty could be seen to be a dangerous concept.
I once attended a workshop given by John Agard and mentioned that I no longer wrote poetry because I was contented with my life. His response was that it was a dangerous line of thought to think that art could only arise out of something painful.... I hope I'm not misrepresenting him. Anyway, the thought has stuck with me. I'm interested in your reflections.
I think it depends how one interprets the word pain. Suffering is part of being human and we all go through it in some form or another, albeit at widely varying degrees. I think that pain and suffering CAN be used to create the most powerful and moving writing, music, art... It is also that feeling of shared experiences, the 'I remember feeling like that' which is important in writing I think.
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