Love this piece Jennifer. I appreciate the challenge it is to incorporate reflections and acknowledgment of the serious and dark crisis the US is in at the moment, and yet look to the intentional way we can go about recreating the world we want without making it sound like out- of-touch positivity. I find people are either focused on the doom, as I often am, although trying to stick to the facts rather than project an outcome, or else seemingly blithely unaware that there is a world in crisis out there as they go about trying to create magical unicorns.
As an artist going into my studio, I am struggling to create anything lately beyond painting a few Valentine cards, which are sort of low-investment doodles, although trying to keep me focused on the good.... and yet there's a part of me that feels like it's foolish "in times like these". If I was an American I would join protest marches and calll my representatives, but from here all I can do to help is perhaps share some of the information I find to help galvanize others. Most of my American friends are eerily silent on social media. I am very concerned, for as you well know, a major crisis in the US will likely have ripple effects for us next door, and possibly around the world. I will try to find balance and paint for good.
Yes, that eerie silence concerns me too. People don’t know who to trust & social media (ie, FB) is not feeling like a safe space. But I think disappearing is like staying silent, giving in and submitting to their dream. NO!! The mainstream media has never done much to cover protests until they get violent so we may not know the full story of what is going to happen today. But I hope people will turn out and make it known that they do not acquiesce to this muskrat nightmare. Meanwhile, paint on! ❤️
Love this piece Jennifer. I appreciate the challenge it is to incorporate reflections and acknowledgment of the serious and dark crisis the US is in at the moment, and yet look to the intentional way we can go about recreating the world we want without making it sound like out- of-touch positivity. I find people are either focused on the doom, as I often am, although trying to stick to the facts rather than project an outcome, or else seemingly blithely unaware that there is a world in crisis out there as they go about trying to create magical unicorns.
As an artist going into my studio, I am struggling to create anything lately beyond painting a few Valentine cards, which are sort of low-investment doodles, although trying to keep me focused on the good.... and yet there's a part of me that feels like it's foolish "in times like these". If I was an American I would join protest marches and calll my representatives, but from here all I can do to help is perhaps share some of the information I find to help galvanize others. Most of my American friends are eerily silent on social media. I am very concerned, for as you well know, a major crisis in the US will likely have ripple effects for us next door, and possibly around the world. I will try to find balance and paint for good.
Yes, that eerie silence concerns me too. People don’t know who to trust & social media (ie, FB) is not feeling like a safe space. But I think disappearing is like staying silent, giving in and submitting to their dream. NO!! The mainstream media has never done much to cover protests until they get violent so we may not know the full story of what is going to happen today. But I hope people will turn out and make it known that they do not acquiesce to this muskrat nightmare. Meanwhile, paint on! ❤️