A Nomadic Curation

60 Words. 60 Years.

Art doesn’t exist solely for art’s sake

Education drives out of the mind superstition, daydreaming, building of castles in the air, cultivation of yarns, and replaces them with a rational practical mind, almost devoid of imagination. Some of these minds having failed to write imaginative stories, turn to that aristocratic type of criticism which magnifies trivialities beyond their real size. They fail to touch other virtues in a work because they do not have the imagination to perceive these mysteries. Art is arbitrary. Anybody can begin his own style. Having begun it arbitrarily, if he persists to produce in that particular mode, he can enlarge and elevate it to something permanent, to something other artists will come to learn and copy, to something the critics will catch up with and appreciate.

It was an emancipatory medium, and offered opportunities to raise consciousness and contest colonial rule. But it has also been riven from the start by paranoia and self-censorship—and that tension has only increased after independence.

40 THANK YOUS IN ONE

We should start from home and tell our stories better.

If the changes we need to make in society take time, including ecological, social, political and cultural issues, should we continue to venerate the present or should we gain consciousness of the passage of time?

Access to art should not require each of us to go out of our way in order to engage with salient ideas, but rather that the privilege of social and cultural dialogue is for everyone.

The Subtle Art of Letting Go

All mathematics is design, the design of nature, the design of the abstract world, because a design is abstract. Higher mathematics is merely a study of design, and that is why the mathematician sees his subject as beautiful, while the layman sees it as confusion. The layman fails to become conscious of design