Samantha Arnull NSW
 


 
BECOME HARD
 
 

RealVideo Film

 
 

Samantha Arnull     Aged 24
samwitch@hotmail.com

Samantha Arnull has recently (1997) completed Graduate Diploma of Art - Honours - in Sculpture from the University of Newcastle. In 1995, she was awarded a Bachelor of Visual Art from the University of Newcastle and in 1992, she completed an Associate Diploma in Fine Arts from Southern Sydney Institute of TAFE in Kogarah.
She describes her most recent work, 'Become Hard', by the quotation below:
'Why so hard?' the charcoal once said to the diamond; 'for are we not close relations?'
Why so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: for are you not - my brothers?
Why so soft, so unresisting and yielding? Why is there so much denial and abnegation in your hearts? So little fate in your glances? And if you will not be fates, if you will not be inexorable: how can you - conquer with me? And if your hardness will not flash and cut and cut to pieces: how can you one day create with me?
For creators are hard. And it must seem bliss to you to press your hand upon millennia as upon wax, bliss to write upon the will of millennia as upon metal - harder than metal, nobler than metal. Only the noblest is perfectly hard.
This law-table do I put over you, Oh my brothers: Become hard!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Of Old and New Tables (sect 29)