Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Beauty is as beauty does
When you love yourself you can love others so it is in our best interest to encourage and foster confidence rather than to enforce a Darwinian hierarchy of castes. This carries over into the arts where galleries and organizations generally have an entrenched core of regulars who consider it their turf. I’ve been on both sides, as I’m sure you have, and I know how hard a person can work and how appreciative a person can be to get their chance to a part of the group.
When the government funds local arts organizations for the good of the community it should be inclusive of all the members of the community and not favor the ones with an arbitrary amount of shows and experience under their belts in my opinion. I hope the forthcoming issues of my local, government grant funded, arts magazine do not focus solely on the artists that are already ‘established’ because those artists already have their confidence. If the first issue of X-IT is any example, then to them it is just another step forward in their ‘other’ job. Yes, most artists’ have a day job, but an arts magazine isn’t the place, in my opinion, to talk about that. Art isn’t just ‘another job’, it’s the essence of humanity, we become The Creator when we create, as lecturer David Wilcock so aptly puts it.
Encouraging people to make art, no matter how humble, should be the goal of a taxpayer funded art magazine. I’d like to read about a local senior citizen who finds joy in their art because one day I will be old and art might be all I can do, and if Picasso and Michelangelo are any example, art is one thing I can get better and better at if I so choose and perhaps get a little encouragement here and there. Also I want to read about the people who are just starting college as art students, why not interview Nick Simko and give him a good start, help him find his confidence. One day he’ll be the one in charge of the local arts.
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Originally posted 2008-05-05 20:21:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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May 6th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Oh thanks so much for the lovely poem you left on my blog, it is so lovely, and your blog is amazing, so magical, loving all your artwork, what a talented chap you are!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Humans have this driving need to classify, to quantify, and to qualify. We seem to crave this order, and putting things in a hierarchy helps us to relate to the world. I agree that it’s entirely arbitrary and, often, harmful, but it is what it is.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Cannot agree more. In fact, it just pisses me off. Mrs Chili is right. I think it is a by product of all our “systems,” albeit political, religious, or economic. They all bleed into eachother and create this arbitrary hierachy. You have to work to change it. Resist it.
I like the way you have very earthy, natural kind of themes in your work. They are very fairy like.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
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