thank you rob for your encouragement. thank you also for the feedback on the notion of bravery. by doing so i feel i’m sharing those moments of possible futures.
i’ve explained to friends about how my future is influenced by other peoples presents. my future doesn’t yet exist, yet it does for other people. there’s a dr in birmingham who has more control of my future now than me, as yesterday i put my present and past in front of him, well as much as i could in an hour. and in my present a friend is taking her car for an mot. again her future becomes a function of someone else’s present.
by doing the interview yesterday, i now know i really want to do the course in birmingham, wanting to do it more now than i did yesterday, as my present now includes my past. in blogging about it, i’ve shared my past and present and indicated my possible future.
rob’s blog about history is really interesting me. i have become concerned that fine art at an academic level simply makes an artist a keeper of history to wheel out something to amuse and entertain. is there any differentiation between an artist that does that and one that takes something of their own life and expresses it to challenge a subject within the public sphere? maybe yes, those people who intellectually and get the difference. i would suggest that they are in minority, as really clever and intellectual people don’t seem to be commonplace. i hope to work with the dr in birmingahm, his presence is strong and i feel it will be unsettling for me and as such really good for me.
at this point the thread could lead to democratisation of art, which is tricky as the thread of thought for me makes the intellectual a minority, and they are too clever to be left a minority.
i wait here from the dr.
mot and coffee.xx
