Karamanoukian's Vision Is Pure

Karamanoukian's Vision is Pure
Alexa Lee's recent obfuscating and opportunistic remarks on Galerie Jacques have prompted me to reflect upon my experience with Karamanoukian over the past eight years. I find it disheartening to encounter the disdain with which his presence is still regarded. In such a commodity-blighted community as Ann Arbor is it surprising that Karamanoukian's vision, faulty only in its purity, has been subject to so much neglect and ignorance? I know intimately this blackballing first hand, and empathize with this stark reality which besets only the finest, for my own art is famously infamous. But then, as Jacques and I both know, this is a basic ground rule in the struggle we have engaged. At this point I can merely look back and regard it as sad that a 26-year career of dedication has received so little acknowledgement and support from both the Ann Arbor and Detroit arts communities. Perhaps the intimidating prospect of thinking is regarded with such horror by these art pharisees that they will always bristle with hostility in the divine presence of Art... until it is safe, and dead.
Roger Hayes
ASTORIA, OR