Resist, collage and acrylic, 2010
MEDIA ROOTS- I pull a lot of inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut. The sentence “Here it is: the end of the world” from Cat’s Cradle stuck out to me, and this image is what came out of it. It made me picture a beautiful resistance blooming out of a bleak, dystopian society that had been pushed to the moral and economic brink by a hypothetical doom.
Vonnegut had the ability to put so much thought and emotion into so little words. He always managed to pepper some dry wit throughout the characters’ inner dialogue too, even when portraying some wretched and hopeless war torn scene.
To me, resistance means freedom- the act of breaking away from the institution. It means emancipation from societal, cultural and poltical chains and limitations. To resist is to liberate your mind, and to embrace knowledge, truth, enlightenment.
When society pushes you to the brink- will you peacefully resist? Would you surrender yourself in the struggle to save humanity?
Abby
This piece is brilliant. Kurt Vonnegut is a genius, and now I have to pick up this book. Words are really incapable of describing the brilliance in your art work. “REST” is extremely fitting seeing as to how we only seem to find solace speaking truth. Rest never feels better when your doing the right thing. Surely, all of us can always do better, but sometimes we need beautiful art – like this piece – to continue inspiring us to do so. Thank You.