I am a few hours late checking in today, because, like a great many other people, I was glued to my TV watching history being made - Barack Obama has just been elected President of the United States. This moment is being heralded as epoch-making, the arbiter of change and a new tomorrow.
Change, the one constant. And this change is elemental to art. From the beginnings of time, humans have resorted to artistic expression to document change - to preserve the old and envision the new. Societies and cultures who have traveled a volatile roller coaster of change have been more nurturing of original thought and art. There is something abandoned about uncertainty and anticipation that gets the creative juices flowing.
Here's hoping that this change reaches out to all the World, and ushers in an era of artistic sumptuousness.
Change, the one constant. And this change is elemental to art. From the beginnings of time, humans have resorted to artistic expression to document change - to preserve the old and envision the new. Societies and cultures who have traveled a volatile roller coaster of change have been more nurturing of original thought and art. There is something abandoned about uncertainty and anticipation that gets the creative juices flowing.
Here's hoping that this change reaches out to all the World, and ushers in an era of artistic sumptuousness.
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