PRECISELY THE TIME WHEN ARTISTS GO TO WORK
posting by Jana
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work... There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. That is how civilizations heal.”
This week BrainPickings featured the print work of illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and writer Courtney Martin, described as 'a mighty manifesto for our time and a testament to the only mechanism by which the creative spirit has ever pulled humanity out of every abyss of its own making.'
Read more about the project and find links to the artists' inspirations at brainpickings.org
It's pretty Ecozoic advice, I reckon. An excerpt from MacNaughton and Martin:
This is your assignment.
Feel all the things. Feel the hard things. The inexplicable things, the things that make you disavow humanity’s capacity for redemption. Feel all the maddening paradoxes. Feel overwhelmed, crazy. Feel uncertain. Feel angry. Feel afraid. Feel powerless. Feel frozen. And then FOCUS….
This is your assignment.
