At 11:07 PM -0700 8/25/00, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>But I also have heard, numerous times, of the art there, and
>all of it deals with the need for the spirits of people to be elevated
>out of the extreme poverty and structure.
Is it possible to address this in art?
Even given the need for heroic overcoming, can the artistic spirit
triumph in such dire circumstances;
If art exists there, it can't be so extremely hopelessly
impoverished. Art too can't live without nourishment, it mostly fails
in the face of insurmountable extremes. A story about the poet who
had to stop so she could feed her children; when they had grown and
she had some freedom she couldn't write either, her work had gone,
either used up or lost.
