The
visit to the Denver Art Museum ended with the last of the three Special
Exhibitions. It was a photography
show. "Common Ground:
Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013" perked my curiosity enough to want
to see it, but not so much that if I had to miss it, I would have been burdened
by the loss. How wrong was I?
Fazal
Sheikh has taken his gift for composition, his knowledge of the mechanics of
photography and his extreme humanity into some of the most desperate, disparate
and dangerous places on this planet just to be a witness. He doesn't preach. He doesn't have to. If you don't get it--you're
pathological--because even a dumb and ignorant person feels empathy. No one had to tell me that this
exhibition was "a thin" space--as my dear friend would say--it's just
obvious at every turn. Every image
fills you with a greater understanding of what it means to be human. What more can I possibly say? From image one to the end, it was a
sacred experience.
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