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Art is a tool to set up new questions -Ai Weiwei
So last week, I started adding a new segment to experiment with, and I have a couple more in mind that I’d like to try over the future weeks. But why this “who am I?”
As some of my long-time subscribers have probably noticed, History is important to me. It brings context to both the old and the new.
History sometimes helps answer questions from the past and provides an avenue for to us reconnect with the past.
Naturally, there are always questions that will be left unanswered.
Today’s questions might have had answers but aren’t sufficient in a future context.
Trying to delineate the past as “out of date” or irrelevant can leave us reveling in the mire of our context without escaping it an infinite while loop that cannot be broken out of.
Yes, sometimes moving forward is another mire or pit of problems. But new problems always provide new frameworks of thinking.
In light of art and creativity, it is a mental framework by which we can query the future.
A way we can test the waters of the possible; almost becoming the oracles of the future.
It is also an avenue in which the prophets can warn and imagine the worst cases.
We need both the oracles and prophets to help shape how we might take steps into the dark.
Hope you all have a great week!
Chris Ried