Hello, I noticed that Aileen's recent blog post made a good pair with Marc's. Both of them vividly describe how fundamental to our survival are (non-commercially driven) art and public spaces for learning and imagining together in addition to digital community spaces.
Some of you may not have seen Aileen's post. It is a vivid account of the personal impact of an artistic project on a life over a long period of time. What Art is Capable of By Aileen Derieg on Furtherfield's Community Blog. http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/aileen/what-art-capable Although I am not an artist nor an expert in any way, I have a very strong faith in art, tremendous respect for artists and those who enable and convey art in so many different ways. I feel privileged to be able to make a small contribution to that with my work as a translator. Admittedly, some artists and art projects feel closer, mean more to me personally than others, but I am in an extremely fortunate position to be able to become at least somewhat acquainted with work that I might otherwise not have been aware of. The past two years of my life, a very painful and difficult period for me personally, have been accompanied by an art project that has been precious to me, powerful, thought-provoking, challenging, and surprisingly healing. I want to try to describe what this project has meant to me – not as a review or scholarly discussion, as I am neither an art critic nor a scholar, but simply as an expression of gratitude to the artist Franz Wassermann and in memory of my beloved sister Amy. http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/aileen/what-art-capable Also see How a Library Saved My Life. By Marc Garrett, on Furtherfield's Community Blog. http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/marc-garrett/how-library-saved-my-life best things Ruth Furtherfield - for Art, Technology and Social Change http://furtherfield.org
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