River2002©Franck, charcoal, graphite B4, B 0.5, pastels on smooth, paper champagne 30x45. I loved River's expressive power. I remember me exulting at his achievement of Coppa Volpi for best male actor in the Venice Film Festival, in 1991. I remember too me standing off the only cinema in Rome where they showed "Handsome and Damned" - free invented title for "My Own Private Idaho" by Gus Van Sant - because it was censured under 14 in Italy. The time I could have seen my River on big screen, instead of on TV always interrupted by irritating adds, all faded away because of one "No". Still today he is alive in front of my eyes in the most powerful scenes from "Running on Empty" "Little Nikita" "Mosquito Coast", but above all in the role of Devo in "I love you till death". Studying his features, I was wondering whether River might finally personify on the screen my favorite poet - Arthur Rimbaud. ...
Creativity is energy. To regenerate itself, creativity should be shared with others. This blog is my "work in progress" as creative person, who wants to show her artist way to see the world...