turning like a key
tumbling in the lock, click/swing
green spring rushes thru...
Lucy Meskill
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Make art not garbage
by Lucy Meskill
How lightly can you walk? This is a question I often ask myself. The awareness of our impact on this beautiful spinning blue green ball floating in space has been on my mind from my earliest memory. As a child I remember feeling so depressed at the amount of plastic and junk in the world and thinking who buys all this stuff? Who needs all this stuff? Where does it all go to die? Unfortunately now I know.
It is impossible to suspend disbelief at the sheer amount of trash generated by humans, myself included. I am sure that, after recycling, I throw out more than my own weight in garbage each week. However having been raised by a mother who saved everything and liked to make something from nothing it is no surprise that as an artist, collage was my first medium.
I am not alone in my romance with the disposable, a great tidal wave of trash is rising up to be conquered by the endlessly headed Hydra of Art, a fearsome and beautiful monster, daughter of the goddess Gaia, devouring and digesting garbage and spitting it out reformed and terrible in its beauty. This wave is gaining momentum around the world, giving new life to refuse. Proof that it really is within our power to make some kind difference, no matter how small, that this life can really be a prayer in which we walk more lightly, use a little less, save a little more, try to do no harm and sometimes, make Art, not garbage...
Lucy Meskill
by Lucy Meskill
How lightly can you walk? This is a question I often ask myself. The awareness of our impact on this beautiful spinning blue green ball floating in space has been on my mind from my earliest memory. As a child I remember feeling so depressed at the amount of plastic and junk in the world and thinking who buys all this stuff? Who needs all this stuff? Where does it all go to die? Unfortunately now I know.
It is impossible to suspend disbelief at the sheer amount of trash generated by humans, myself included. I am sure that, after recycling, I throw out more than my own weight in garbage each week. However having been raised by a mother who saved everything and liked to make something from nothing it is no surprise that as an artist, collage was my first medium.
I am not alone in my romance with the disposable, a great tidal wave of trash is rising up to be conquered by the endlessly headed Hydra of Art, a fearsome and beautiful monster, daughter of the goddess Gaia, devouring and digesting garbage and spitting it out reformed and terrible in its beauty. This wave is gaining momentum around the world, giving new life to refuse. Proof that it really is within our power to make some kind difference, no matter how small, that this life can really be a prayer in which we walk more lightly, use a little less, save a little more, try to do no harm and sometimes, make Art, not garbage...
Lucy Meskill
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