Furtherfield Blog

The below article was accepted by one visual reader and I was asked to revise the text four times. After hearing the book will be published, they just email they decided to withdraw this article. Although it can not appear in the book, I still wanted to show it to the public. Hope you enjoy it.

when it comes up
i brace myself
take a deep breath
and call myself an artist.

as a way of being FOR art
FOR a tradition of willful (rather than submissive) practices - that I am not ready to give up on.
being the most artist that I can be
which is to be free and connected and alert and part of a conscious shaping force of the whole ecology of ideas, beings and things.

re-claiming art now
and using my elbows the best I can to make some space for future art freedoms

Yesterday morning I went to get my New York Times as I do every Sunday.  As I unwrapped the rolled up paper (yes I’m talking about the physical paper edition) I wondered what image would appear on the front page of the first day of 2012.  This the leading newspaper in the US surely would bring in the new year with a powerful image of what is to come.  Which is why I went through a rollercoaster of thoughts when I revealed this image as the front page.