Light for Peggy
By Carlos Aviles
5 Jul 2008
We navigate through life without paying much attention to detail. That is the way things are. Some people are lucky and they get to see some glimpse of the meaning of everything. Sometimes that glimpse comes at a terrible price.
We get trapped in a whirlwind; our sails torn, our rudder broken, and there is no other option but to let the current take us were it leads. Then we have two choices: to despair and think of what's coming, or to appreciate the view and learn form the experience.
I think this is the difference between be cured, and be healed. You can get cured but you may never heal, or you may never be cured, but heal wonderfully.
When you make photos you get an idea of how to look. You start your training. You see things in a different light. That may well be of service when the time comes, if your were paying attention.
There is beauty everywhere, even in the face of the most horrible things. A strange beauty that not everyone sees and we, as time stoppers and documenters, as artists, are responsible of seeing and bring forth to everyone.
Trapped in this spiral, this whirlwind, when things appear to be the darkest, right in the middle of it you see light. It is not a dark passage, is a passage filled of the light of understanding, of wonderment, of the love we have been made aware of. It is then that we accept what's coming with the joy of knowing that no matter were this wind takes us, we'll be ready and take advantage of our travel, our life. Everything clicks.
We come out of the storm not unscathed, but satisfied. We come out bigger in spirit, stronger in faith and joyful that a secret has been revealed to us.
That is the meaning of been healed.
