One may experience the shamanic dance of healing or leaving the wounds speak for themselves. One may hear music from the instruments that seem lively and yet unanchored in any particular corner of the street, like coming from everywhere, from any spot of the globe to get poured into our senses. One may hear the comments on the art that is shocking or inappropriate, provoking or straying from the mainstreams of artistic expression or composition. These paintings do not carry any special experiment, but as a whole they appear to be a huge experiment in life, sometimes as simple as a human touch. They are all extensively involving, as someone said, stirring all our senses at the same time.

Similar way the artist appears mysterious as a child of a naïve soul of creation or a master of the wise vision and depth. There are things obviously incorporated to draw our attention to some detail, as fragments of reality caught on the spot and served on the plate or stuck to the body of the painting itself, but upon all these captivating details scattered on the paintings, some of them be coins, train tickets, playing cards, cigarettes or else we find it, a painting as a whole. There is a feeling of reliability and canon in this art, its solidity, style of painter to easily fill large formats of heavy boards or doors (?) wood panels which all together make the appearance of a cathedral with the icons of life and pain or warning and on its walls, voice and music filling it, pertaining not to past, history and death and not to future, but to the present moment brimming with life, any timeline being captured in that.

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To get close with the paintings of Daniel Brophy, and
closeness also include the external often unprotected
space, we need first to get out of safety of our inner
worlds and take a courage to look at them.

The subject of his acrylics is only seemingly from
this side of the hither polyvalence. The palette is
expressionistic, and figures are succinct and clear,
free of insisting in details and without grandeur of
powerful and calming gestures. In these paintings
there are also the intervals, intersections and
inter-realities which open the space to an intuitive
life and imaginary problems that are communicated the
metaphoric way.

It's certain that Daniel contrived creating sensible
relations of his inner self with the world. With his
emerging authentic artistic Self, Daniel
envision some of the universal human paths and
destinies that may lead to Father and God to the
eternal light in the darkness (and the darkness in the
light) over lifetime.

Activating his artistic skills creative human-centric
way and wisely applying "and-and" logic, Daniel
virtuously escaped to get trapped by sterile zealotry,
skipped over naive humanism and endowed us with the
paintings that have soul.

D. N. Benzion, 2004

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