Comments on: Praise for Chandra Garsson’s latest film Art & Gift 2011 https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/praise-for-chandra-garssons-latest-film-art-gift-2011/ Story Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung on Wellness, Themes, Archetypes - Love Made Of Heart ® Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chandra Garsson https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/praise-for-chandra-garssons-latest-film-art-gift-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-10725 Chandra Garsson Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:16:21 +0000 http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/?p=3603#comment-10725 Laughing in bemused joy, Teresa, to read your praise. Thank you! Yes, it is true, after you presented me with the poem you had written in your blog about Art and Gift, I did suggest a more conventional essay approach to blogging. The poem sparked genuine interest in finding out what you were actually saying about my film, hence my suggestion of a more formal approach. I present here an introductory six-minute short film by way of paratext, or as I say within the film ‘paratextural’ information on the film, a play on ‘paratextual’ emphasising the textural qualities of the surfaces of most of my art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_PDl8OBxc. Believe it or not, I dove back in to create a second version very similar yet different from the feature experimental documentary Art and Gift, this called Art and Gift, a Voyage Begins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh758iVVB_Q&feature=related And believe it or not I am still far from satisfied, as there are some technical flaws resulting from sound problems that could not be avoided, given my lack of experience making films, given the film software I worked with, given compression inevitable in the upload. Still and all, I am satisfied. I documented the gift of nearly all my art work, and I was able to realize my goal, that of saving my work from ultimate destruction brought on by the vagaries of the state of commercial real estate in the state of California, and eviction. Frankly, I was done, I wanted freedom from what had become for me an ongoing untenable situation. Laughing in bemused joy, Teresa, to read your praise. Thank you! Yes, it is true, after you presented me with the poem you had written in your blog about Art and Gift, I did suggest a more conventional essay approach to blogging. The poem sparked genuine interest in finding out what you were actually saying about my film, hence my suggestion of a more formal approach.

I present here an introductory six-minute short film by way of paratext, or as I say within the film ‘paratextural’ information on the film, a play on ‘paratextual’ emphasising the textural qualities of the surfaces of most of my art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_PDl8OBxc.

Believe it or not, I dove back in to create a second version very similar yet different from the feature experimental documentary Art and Gift, this called Art and Gift, a Voyage Begins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh758iVVB_Q&feature=related

And believe it or not I am still far from satisfied, as there are some technical flaws resulting from sound problems that could not be avoided, given my lack of experience making films, given the film software I worked with, given compression inevitable in the upload. Still and all, I am satisfied. I documented the gift of nearly all my art work, and I was able to realize my goal, that of saving my work from ultimate destruction brought on by the vagaries of the state of commercial real estate in the state of California, and eviction. Frankly, I was done, I wanted freedom from what had become for me an ongoing untenable situation.

]]> By: Chandra Garsson https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/praise-for-chandra-garssons-latest-film-art-gift-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-10595 Chandra Garsson Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:18:53 +0000 http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/?p=3603#comment-10595 Thank you so very much, Dear Teresa, I see a few welcome revisions, and I am grateful. I love reading your impressions of my film. Much happiness to you in the New Year! Thank you so very much, Dear Teresa, I see a few welcome revisions, and I am grateful. I love reading your impressions of my film. Much happiness to you in the New Year!

]]> By: Chandra Garsson https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/praise-for-chandra-garssons-latest-film-art-gift-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-10576 Chandra Garsson Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:28:53 +0000 http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/?p=3603#comment-10576 A few factual errors, I will accept as poetic license, Teresa, especially as you speak well of my art (and eloquently) within the film. The rent was not raised ten-fold, although that has happened to many others. After my eviction in 2006 by a greedy developer landlord from the Dutch Boy paint factory art studios, I was given a much smaller space by my friend of about twenty years, one who had collected much of my art. I had to sell a great deal of my work at prices far below market value at the time of that move, due to the fact that the space my friend offered me (at a price well below market value) was about 1/8 of the space I had had to vacate. Now ensconced in the old Bank of America building, my friend, my landlady died. Her son inherited, he "had other plans for the building," so once again I had to move. He kept the rent the same low amount I had paid his mother until the time of my move. He offered me another space in another building about 1/4 the size of the smaller space I had squeezed into after eviction from the Dutch Boy. It is difficult to say in a situation like mine whether the tragedy is the loss of studio/gallery/work/storage (all of that is what a studio is or can be to a visual artist), or whether the tragedy is the necessity of saving work from land-fill by giving it to others. The loss is of countless hours of grueling intellectual work that goes into the making of any art---in my case countless paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and the objects that go into the personal collection of an artist, all grist for the mill, all muse, all the props that hold the theater together. I am glad you give praise to the film I made about giving away the art, I would be interested in knowing what exactly about the film or the act of giving it all up you praise. After the enormity of first creating the body of work and then the enormity of two evictions and the unique "solution" I found--- honestly? Not much of a solution to the dilemma I was faced with--- I would be interested in feedback, specifically about the film and/or the situation. I am glad you enjoyed a few of my many sound effects. I am gratified that you found the music "haunting," I agree that Paul Digby, Vincent Andelmoth, Aki Sasaki and friends, and Danny Zingarelli and friends created hauntingly beautiful music which graciously they allowed me to use in my film. Er, uh, whose "ego?" Just curious. Thank you for your impressions, and the opportunity for me to fill in a few gaps here by way of explanation, for those who click on the link to the film. I love your participation in the film, Teresa, thank you again, Chandra A few factual errors, I will accept as poetic license, Teresa, especially as you speak well of my art (and eloquently) within the film. The rent was not raised ten-fold, although that has happened to many others. After my eviction in 2006 by a greedy developer landlord from the Dutch Boy paint factory art studios, I was given a much smaller space by my friend of about twenty years, one who had collected much of my art. I had to sell a great deal of my work at prices far below market value at the time of that move, due to the fact that the space my friend offered me (at a price well below market value) was about 1/8 of the space I had had to vacate. Now ensconced in the old Bank of America building, my friend, my landlady died. Her son inherited, he “had other plans for the building,” so once again I had to move. He kept the rent the same low amount I had paid his mother until the time of my move. He offered me another space in another building about 1/4 the size of the smaller space I had squeezed into after eviction from the Dutch Boy.
It is difficult to say in a situation like mine whether the tragedy is the loss of studio/gallery/work/storage (all of that is what a studio is or can be to a visual artist), or whether the tragedy is the necessity of saving work from land-fill by giving it to others. The loss is of countless hours of grueling intellectual work that goes into the making of any art—in my case countless paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and the objects that go into the personal collection of an artist, all grist for the mill, all muse, all the props that hold the theater together.
I am glad you give praise to the film I made about giving away the art, I would be interested in knowing what exactly about the film or the act of giving it all up you praise. After the enormity of first creating the body of work and then the enormity of two evictions and the unique “solution” I found— honestly? Not much of a solution to the dilemma I was faced with— I would be interested in feedback, specifically about the film and/or the situation.
I am glad you enjoyed a few of my many sound effects.
I am gratified that you found the music “haunting,” I agree that Paul Digby, Vincent Andelmoth, Aki Sasaki and friends, and Danny Zingarelli and friends created hauntingly beautiful music which graciously they allowed me to use in my film.
Er, uh, whose “ego?” Just curious.
Thank you for your impressions, and the opportunity for me to fill in a few gaps here by way of explanation, for those who click on the link to the film.
I love your participation in the film, Teresa, thank you again,
Chandra

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