098 - First Exhibition

098 - First Exhibition
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These are two images from my first exhibition - Beautiful Lublin.

I want to support Lublin in bringing its identity into closer focus, showing people who live here more about what the city and region is as opposed to classical views on what culture should be - theatre, oil paintings and people playing violins.

The printing of books was an opportunity for the educated classes to hijack society's image of culture and twist it to fit some Western part of a European models, especially that of Latin and Greek models. I am part of a movement to try and revitalise culture, not in a cutesy overly-romantic way, but by showing people what is there so that they get the choice of what they want to call culture and nevber having to feel ashamed of it. This might sound old hat to a Westerner, but it is cutting edge thought here in Eastern Europe.

I would like to thank my wife for taking this picture, and everyone who helps to write and maintain Gimp photo-editing software for giving me the tools to convert the blurry, badly lit original into this sharp result.

The image on the right is of Jesus on a steel tube spaceframe cross, built for the visit by former pope, John Paul II, who once used to teach at the city's Catholic university.