Reading John Berger's collection of short essays of art criticism, I just came across this:
"What the painting by Bosch does is to remind us -- if prophecies can be called reminders -- that the first step towards building an alternative world must be a refusal of the world-picture implanted in our minds and all the false promises used everywhere to justify and idealise the delinquent and insatiable need to sell. Another space is vitally necessary.”
(John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket)
@jk He is a beautiful writer and thinker, and a good source for sustainable left ideas. The Shape of a Pocket looks at art practice grounded in the realities of resistance, the materialities of being human in a body.
Also, cows.
@jk Here's another quote from the same essay.
"Hope, however, is an act of faith and has to be sustained by other concrete actions. For example, the action of approach, of measuring distances, and walking toward. This will lead to collaborations which deny discontinuity. The act of resistance means not only refusing to accept the absurdity of the world-picture offered us, but denouncing it. And when hell is denounced from within, it ceases to be hell."
Kate
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