ABOUT SORROWLAND PRESS

Sorrowland Press is born on the basis of rejection with a purpose to lodge subjects and artists who are, perhaps, left cold from the frozen state of current artistic ambitions. This press is very emotional. It is more likely to respond to irregular heartbeats than to unfluctuating cerebral waves. For if art has no pulse it is flatlined, nonexistent.

                 Without it sounding like too much of an overstatement, art is life and can be a form of immortality. The stronger the emotional output, the longer the art will succeed in surviving time. Art is also history, for emotions reveal intentions. If we are to understand some of the great universal fundamental questions it may not be through explanation of historical events, through logical, philosophical, existential scrutiny, or through scientific dissection, it may be, rather, through emotional experience.

                 It is clear that the prevailing wealthy societies, in general, have been more concerned with materialistic accumulation rather than with emotional development. Many societies fear emotions on the basis that they are irrational, impulsive, unpredictable—dangerous. Maybe people have legitimate reasons to be on the defensive, but emotional repression seems to have led to the show of destruction which too many carelessly watch come to an end.

                 So what does Sorrowland Press seek? Art that dances with its entrails hanging out; art that acts with a gun to its head and a knife to its neck; art that sings with a little blood in its mouth; art that sculpts its masterpiece and dares to smash it; art that photographs and displays its most awkward moment; art that paints its fading flowers; art that writes with its bony fingers in the dirt; art that lives because it dies, that dies because it lives.

 

                 And then laughs about it all.

Sorrowland Press

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