Abandon Originality.
14th October 2014.
Abandon originality
Abandon self-promotion
Abandon individuality
Revel in individuality
Yes to process
No to product
Yes to product
Art on a small scale
No to the market
Yes to earning a living
Communication
No to trying
Yes to trying
Yes to politics in art
No to politics in art
(it’s there anyway)
Process as politics
Art as a challenge to consumerism
Emotional
Formal
Yes to awareness
Yes to working class
No to bureaucracy
No to feeding the institutions
Yes to feeding us all
(and not just spiritually)
Yes to being aware of power
Yes to vulnerability
No to status
Not to hierarchy
Yes to roles of different but equal power
No to the possibility of ever owning art
Abandon trying to be anyone
Abandon trying to be anything
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