Living in America today is quite a bit like living with a terminal illness. Not that I have had a terminal illness (not to my knowledge so far, anyway), but my husband did. When he was found to have a lump in his lung in February of 2018, it was pretty clear that death was Read More
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Shelley Wong on Keeping it Real and Being Kind
What is art? Is it necessary? Why?
We’re currently seeing how necessary art is when we are forced to be alone and apart from gatherings. We need it for psychic relief and spiritual renewal. Artists synthesize forms and sources of knowledge combined with imagining to generate integrated knowledge and collective, expansive possibilities. Art provides connection to our buried past; it expresses what is difficult to say and dwells in the unknowing, in mystery and wonder, as a means to move us forward, to live and thrive, to deeply know ourselves and others.