The last three nights has seen a growing violence and escalation in rioting all over England's capital. I watch from my television set not so far away from where these displays of anguish were taking place.
Exorcism - the act of driving out a dark spirit that has possessed a person or a place, by commanding it to leave in the name of a more powerful power, in our case the life of the Earth - this is one of the oldest of our human rituals. However, exorcisms are also embedded in the arts of our culture like little noticed but powerful micro-climates.
At the Tate Modern in London, British Petroleum seeks to capture our imagination by hitching its BP sunflower logo to the Miro exhibit. The artistic experience is then reduced to a dangerously passive consumerism. Only the Earth itself, a kind of freak storm inside, can free us from such a damaging lie.
We tried to let all the victimized life of BP come through us on Monday.
"Madre Tierra" - dedicated to Leonardo Lisandro Guarcax Gonzales of Sotz'il Jay, a Mayan Spiritual Leader who was murdered in August this year in Guatemala. http://sotziljay.wordpress.com/
Medium-Watercolour. September 14th. 2010
Submission for 100 Square Foot Exhibition http://www.100sqft.co.uk/, New Orleans, USA and London, UK
To all London Evolvers the time to gather is June 2nd at 6:30 pm for a lecture by Reality Sandwich's Creative Director Michael Robinson at the Central St. Martins Pop Up Shop 2060 Show. The Shop is open to the public for this free lecture on Transformation in the Digital Age, and is located at 97-99 CLERKENWELL ROAD.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
