I have made my piece for March – in the end it was simple, after watching Newsnight, where Jeremy Paxman summarised the Syria crisis as a 21st century failure.
It is a failure of our imagination and our humanity, that we cannot imagine a world without conflict.
Without imagination, we cannot begin to create a viable future.
Patricia Wilson Smith is a visual artist/independent curator who uses traditional and digital media to engage with a range of ideas, from landscape and the environment to the current obsession with the centenary of World War One. Working with students in Canterbury, she is curating an exhibition 'Canterbury at War' for the Beaney Museum in October, and is in the process of designing an installation, 'Flight', to be placed in a Canterbury church during the Canterbury Festival.
