Freedom?
What about the freedom to care?
Stretched to the limit,
frayed,
torn apart,
the courage to say no,
no, that is too much!
No, that is not acceptable!
No, that is not what I need.
The courage to say no opens up
the possibility,
the mental space,
the emotional wherewithal
to care.
Will we stand
and fight
for the freedom
to care?
Recent duh! moment; the Little Boxes* and Surreality: Modern Woman themes are related
insert *forehead slap* here.
The song played over and over in my head while working out the sculpture for Surreality: Modern Woman. What if… the song played while the same image repeated over and over? Might that reinforce the message? And if that happened to be a flip animation, then it could lend to an interactive experience. A heavy-handed experience, but interactive all the same.
And so, we have… Surreality: Modern Woman : Opportunity
The installation, and the video. Please take the opportunity to critical examine a cultural myth and decide if conforming to this version of reality is for you.
*a huge thank you to Nancy Schimmel, Malvina Reynolds's daughter, for permission to use the song Little Boxes.
