A Pack of Rice
imagine what a pack of 5kg rice can do for a family. It costs MYR17 and able to sustain a family for at least 2 weeks.
These are one of many reasons why i shy away from attending exhibitions and art for arts sake projects. If the artwork they produce able to feed 500 people - sure im all IN, in fact i will be helping, designing a way to make it more effective.
The problem about dealing with artists is dealing with their emotional baggage - diva-ness - without any result, worst got the blame for not able to understand their works and so forth.Basic needs still need to be fulfilled, then if we able to cover all the layers in the Maslow hierarchy, then only an individual able to go higher. People just need to be aware about this.
who cares about understanding about abstract art, listening to a monologue, poetry when they are busy scrambling to put food on the table.
who cares about attending in polemical seminars talking about where art should go?
Lets view this under the issue of practicality. Like what my old teacher who knocked sense in me in my first year of university - he told me " oi andy - enough of dealing with these art for art sake" Get in touch with reality. As art is simply a pale representation/imitation of reality - Plato encourages us to look beyond the cave.
we need more Daumier to correct and empower others to mold a better reality rather than falling to whiny artistic individuals.
rather than seeping wine, reading scrambled pseudo intellectual nonsense in a glossy embossed catalogue ( that costs around RM15 bucks to print - where i can buy a pack of 5kg of beras ) i might as well go out go distribute beras to the unfortunate and at the same time encourages those who are close to us join in.
Bear in mind - this action requires no excuse or pressing the like button in FB ok.
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| one of the recipients from Peace School, Gelugor, Penang |
These are one of many reasons why i shy away from attending exhibitions and art for arts sake projects. If the artwork they produce able to feed 500 people - sure im all IN, in fact i will be helping, designing a way to make it more effective.
The problem about dealing with artists is dealing with their emotional baggage - diva-ness - without any result, worst got the blame for not able to understand their works and so forth.Basic needs still need to be fulfilled, then if we able to cover all the layers in the Maslow hierarchy, then only an individual able to go higher. People just need to be aware about this.
who cares about understanding about abstract art, listening to a monologue, poetry when they are busy scrambling to put food on the table.
who cares about attending in polemical seminars talking about where art should go?
Lets view this under the issue of practicality. Like what my old teacher who knocked sense in me in my first year of university - he told me " oi andy - enough of dealing with these art for art sake" Get in touch with reality. As art is simply a pale representation/imitation of reality - Plato encourages us to look beyond the cave.
we need more Daumier to correct and empower others to mold a better reality rather than falling to whiny artistic individuals.
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| Daumier's Gargantua |
rather than seeping wine, reading scrambled pseudo intellectual nonsense in a glossy embossed catalogue ( that costs around RM15 bucks to print - where i can buy a pack of 5kg of beras ) i might as well go out go distribute beras to the unfortunate and at the same time encourages those who are close to us join in.
Bear in mind - this action requires no excuse or pressing the like button in FB ok.
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