I sometimes imagine a society based on the economy of artists. Every action is in support of the group's individual and collective creative process. Maybe there would be an expected birthday show, staggering the collective event schedule. All efforts go toward making art and supporting artists. What are you making for view?
An artist often knows its expression of individuality is its currency. The more perspectival the work, the more intellectually valued. To be unique is a given, but when we identify with a group(s), do we forfeit our true identity? The first Wednesday of November is here to give an excuse to selfishness. Embracing the singular self is a route to greater responsibility in understanding identity. Our relationships with and to others, those outside of self, enables us to have concern, which I prefer over empathy, for them and ourselves in context, without conflating our experiences as one. While similarity is meaningful, it is course and excluding of an individual's nuance. If we call ourselves into "race" distinctions, colors, classes and categories, do we negate or erase the beauty of representing as the only one, as only we, ourselves, each one self, can?
Happy No Race Day, Wednesday, November 2, 2016.
More about No Race Day, this blog, October 23, 2014 and
November 4, 2015.
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