6. The last one is not a piece of music, but rather a segment from the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics, a beautifully artistic presentation of eternal themes that underlie humanity throughout the passage of time. Man's duality nature, efforts to understand ourselves and the world, and struggle with our nature and the universe, are elegantly conveyed through a combination of different art forms. It really captures the human spirit in which the Olympics' origin is rooted.
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Jeff
And his stuff is certainly spiritual!
“There’s no mistaking a LeRoy Clarke canvas: the size, the richness, the inimitable style, the recurrence of the basic symbols. LeRoy insists that his work is obeah, a deliberate evocation of untainted African energy and spirituality, both he claims – erased from modern consciousness.
“I paint with an intention for revolution. Every stroke of my painting is a suggestion of destroying the enemies of humanity, particularly African humanity. I paint for enlightenment, to bring us closer to parting the darkness and opening up the way to our origins. If I were a medicine man involved in herbs I’d be doing a similar thing. In earlier periods there were obvious mutilations of the psyche, obvious attacks in terms of reducing the African man’s pride and dignity. But now the tools are extremely sophisticated, wiping out all African sensibility. If you lack a sensibility, then you’re completely open house. I’m terrified of the new weapons being used.””