Ever, JML
This is a little Book. It deals with little things.
like being pretty damned high
Low sun from behind Setting your field on fire Adding red to red And gold to blue Three geese wheeling Not knowing what to do Because you're a goose That flies in circles Above hard cold ground But one of these days You'll have to come down From your lofty gaze And where will you land Here in front of me? Or drown far out to sea? Pick a direction now Your wings are aching and how Do you expect to expect to be free? When you fly in circles Above a burning tree.
You'd
think "Urban" artists would have the common decency to drop certain aspects of the traditional artist tag in the pursuit of a truly progressive creative community. The tradition of having to be fucking mollycoddled for example. I actually had a guy complain to me via email (oh woe) that he didn’t like the flyer I had done for an exhibition he was in because it didn’t have his name on it. A fair point if it was his exhibition, mabye even acceptable if he was one of the proponents of his genre. But neither apply in this case and to be honest these things shouldn’t matter anymore anyway. Warhol is dead. Get the fuck over it.
I haven't seen a masterpiece come out of the urban art scene. There's stuff I like for sure. Really talented work. But if you insist on being trendy and listening to hip-hop do you really think anyone one will take you seroiusly if you throw a rant about the importance of your artwork. Focus on getting your genre to a respectable level of technical and conceptual skill. Help those who are also striving for this goal. You can't demand recognition. Just because you stomp your feet doesn't mean people have to like your work. You are not above your peers, you are not above your public no-one is. If you're going to subvert the institution of the white cube by creating art in public and on the street then maybe subverting the bullshit attitude that goes along with the white cube mentality might be a good idea too. We should have been done with this shit years ago.
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