Second Tuesday in Witch Time

 

So, why do I even try to fit The People into the context of the art world. They are the extension of myself, my mind made visible. In this sense they are not art, certainly in the western since of the word they are not art. They are not done for clients. They are not sold to rich white people or rich any people. They do ot reflect anything but me. If you love the people, if you are mystified and delighted by the people, then you love and are mystified by me. If you know the people you know me, and the depth to which you know them is the depth to which you know me. If you are confused by them, I confuse you, if you do not understand why they would be made, you do not understand me. Ifthey make you feel eerie, then I make you feel eerie. There is really no way to separate the people from me. Not as long as they exist and I am able to make them at least.

 

This is the time when great art must be set aside and all the ideas associated with it. From now on we will be artists for ourselves again and instead of fifteen minutes of fame, like Germaine Greer once said, we all all be forever famous to fifteen people. The problem with the way we are –or many people are who say they want to do new things is they snobbishly want to do them in the old way. They want to be acknowledged by the old guard, clapped by the new regime, sit and have tea with the old kings and queens.

 

When George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and all those founding fathers went to war against England, they disdained England not because it was tyrannical, but because it would not incorporate them properly into its tyranny. We cannot despie what is because it leaves us out. We must turn out backs on it because it is wicked and we want no part in it, not in order that we might  have our own share in the wickedness. That has been our problem so far.

 

Last Tuesday it was a gloomy day, turning to a rainy day and I was full of depression, on my way to Belmont.  By the end of the day I was in my first bath house experience what I was told good Christian people did not do, but then, I have long ceased to be a good Christian person.