| ` Interview with Mr. Best in Paris ` Summer 2011 V8+ |
Interview with Mr. Best at the Cafe` Delicatessen on rue de La Place` in Paris, France on the afternoon of Wednesday July 6, 2011 ~* I am Deidre Calico, arts and theater reporter for New Culture International Magazine. We have the privilege of interviewing the World Famous Artist Sean Terrence Best today on this lovely afternoon at this picturesque sidewalk cafe` in one of the most historic quarters of Paris. "Mr. Best, thank you for being with us today. I know how busy you are and how intensely you work the fashionable creativity which fuels your art, so I won't keep you long, just a few quick questions, please." "It's my pleasure to be here with you this afternoon, Deidre, and I'm thankful for the opportunity of this interview with you and the prestigious magazine which you represent. This is great press for me. The publicity from these interviews really helps me a great deal." "That's great to hear you say! Thank you, Mr. Best, for your kind words. The questions I want to ask you today are, and I'll just go ahead and get started here." "Sure." "Alright then, first, what is a normal day in the life of the World Famous Artist Sean Terrence Best like? Give us an idea of what a typical day for you involves." "A typical day." "Yes, please." "Well, Deidre, a typical day for me is..........let's see, I happen to have my diary with me this afternoon. I was sitting here sipping cafe` au lait and making some entries, should I read to you an excerpt from my diary?" "That'll do nicely, Mr. Best. What better place could we really get true idea of your day~to~day life than from your own diary." "Yeah, that's accurate. Ok, then, here goes. This is an entry I made about a month ago when I was in Panama City doing some fishing on the Gulf of Mexico and I had been working a lot in my studio there at the time, so I had been inside for most of about three days in a row and this is what I started thinking. Diary entry for the World Famous Artist Sean Terrence Best on June 4, 2011: {{ It was one of those lazy, humid summer days on the gulf coast of Florida when it starts getting cloudy at noon. Usually it's much later in the day when the highly electrically charged thunderstorms begin to appear, bringing with them gale force winds and torrential downpours. I needed to temper my skin, but there was no sun. I was losing my tan. If I didn't get out there and strengthen the depth of my skin tone soon, then the next time I ventured out upon the water...........I would burn. }}" "How fascinating! One wouldn't necessarily imagine that a great artist like yourself could be thinking such regular people type thoughts. Thanks for sharing that with us, Mr. Best" "You're welcome, Deidre. I'm delighted to share with you and please, call me Sean." "Alright, Sean. Now for our next question, What are your political views?" "Ah, politics. Well, to be honest with you Deidre, I don't really find politics very interesting. I don't suppose I actually have any political views one way or the other." "Fair enough. Thank you for being so honest and forthright, Sean. Next interview question: If you could describe an art form which inspires your work, a type of art which inspires your art, what would that art form be?" "That's a very interesting and thought provoking question, Deidre. I'm sure I would have to say dance." "Dance? Why dance?" "I like dancing. It's the movements which communicate with me. The body takes on the role of the face, replacing eyes with limbs, lips with torso. Dance brings inspiration in an undecipherable form. Dance gives one a sense of profound zeal to accomplish feats of greatness, even though it makes certain people shy. Dance casts a spotlight upon the soul. Some people don't feel safe when their souls are exposed to the light of the attention of their peers even when said peers join them in the dance. Some people are at ease only when their souls are shrouded in the imagined safety of anonymity. Do you want to know why some people dance in the dark or only in a room by themselves? Because there is no anonymity in dance." "Amazing, Sean! That's very poetic and lovely, not to mention insightful. I can see now that your art is so great for many reasons, one of which is the fact that you are such a deeply philosophical thinker." "You are very generous, Deidre. Thank you." "You're welcome, Sean. Now for my last question, I know you have paint waiting on a palette upstairs in your studio above the antique shop, so I'll make it quick. What is your idea, your concept, of women?" "You're having fun with this one, aren't you, Deidre?" "Ha, ha, yes, Sean, I am. I'm glad it's me that gets to ask you this face~to~face in Paris!" "Yes, right, the City of Love. Oh, I do think of women. I think of women quite often, as a matter of fact. I shall answer this question as honestly as the others and not let the impositions of social decor interfere. I don't think many women realize their full power. The extreme monopoly of their enviable position has been downplayed to such an extent by the media that many women give away their thrones to the lowest bidder, never realizing the enormity of their forfeit. I for one prefer the company of virgins." "Virgins? Why is that, Sean?" "An untouched woman is the avatar of Nature. She has the completeness of not being separated from herself. She is the expression, the wellspring of the delight of all those around her." "Do you mean that literally or metaphorically?" "Either way." "How very touching. That could move one to tears. Your candor is much appreciated, Sean. And I shall end the interview now, as I think I see your chauffeur pulling up with your limousine. " "Yes, that's Pousson, he's an excellent driver but I think I'll walk back to my studio today, Deidre. It's such a gorgeous afternoon with scrumptious looking puffy white cotton~candy clouds drifting aimlessly across a cerulean blue sky. Paris is so enchanting at this time of year." "You're right, Sean, it sure is. Thanks so much for taking the time to let us conduct this interview with you today and we look forward to doing it again when your next gallery show opens in Cairo in October." "Thank you, Deidre. All my best and much luck to you, you're a talented journalist. See you in Cairo." "Luck to you, Sean, see you in Cairo!" |
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| Born in Connecticut to parents of Amish decent, Deidre Calico is 32 years of age, not married and has no children ~* Dedicated to her career, Deidre received her artium baccalaureus (Bachelor of Arts degree) in Art History with a minor in Journalism from a private women's college in New England ~* She currently lives on the Mediterranean island of Crete in a villa she inherited from her great grandmother. Upon receiving her inheritance in this famed and romantic location, another fortuitous twist of fate dropped an intriguing mystery into Deidre's lap and now she is devoting all her spare time to deciphering the 4,000 year old ancient Minoan script known as Linear A. Deidre's great grandmother was a grandniece of a man known as "the Polis" by those close to him. Polis, from which our word "politics" is derived, is a term for the Greek city~state as in acropolis. The Polis worked as a porter for Heinrich Schliemann. Schliemann, having amassed a fortune from international trade and speculation during the California gold rush of the mid 19th century, spent the remainder of his life in archaeological pursuits excavating sites which he suspected to be the location of the fabled Troy spoken of in Homeric Epics. The Polis had hidden a small, wooden chest in a section of plaster wall which Deidre's great grandmother accidentally discovered whilst attempting to re~hang a painting which had begun to dangle loosely as the plaster covering the hollow niche behind it began to decay and drop away from the wall. Inside the chest were many wrinkled papers covered with seemingly random scribbles. Also in the chest was found a note clearly written in the hand of the Polis stating that the apparently meaningless characters were actually Linear A which had, according to the Polis, been partially deciphered by Schliemann during his days at the Hellespont. Being also a student of languages (she fluently speaks French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Russian and Chinese) Deidre has taken up residence at the villa because she believes that Schliemann may have hit upon a genuine translation of the ancient Minoan writing. There's a Nobel Prize in this, Deidre, and our hearts are all with you !! *~V8~*+ |
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