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)

@katebowles I need to read some of these, i got really into Ways of Seeing and some of his 80s channel 4 stuff last year

@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 "Cows are compliant, yet they refuse to be hurried." (JB)
@jk "Cows are very delicate on their feet: they place them like models turning on high-heeled shoes at the end of their to-and--fro." (JB)