Wherever two or more are gathered together, a community is born.
We haven't developed to the point where we can survive a lifetime without help from someone else. We all have to depend on others -- and others have to depend on us.
Sometimes, they fail us. Sometimes, we fail them. One way or another, though, we all need help getting from one end of this life to the other.
Building communities is how we do that. It is something we have to do.
Spanish Exhibition, Paris, 1936
ReplyDeleteArtist without borders,
Facing imminent war and the collapse
Of their Republic, bonded together
Their own exhibition of Spain.
Surrounded by Roman fascist colonnades
And Russian Communist Proletariats.
Calder created a Mercury Fountain
At the heart of these exiles.
In response to the muscular
Totalitarians all around them,
Picasso sculpted a squat concrete
Head with Aquilarian nose.
And joined with Miro’s “The Reaper”
To scream across one whole wall
That savage critique of Franco,
The “J’Accuse!” of “Guernica.”
Never let any National Endowment
Bureaucrat tell you that art
Shouldn’t be political.
Polis is what the many compose
That only art authenticates
By taking its stand against power.
[Disposable Poem October 15, 2009]
Dr. Mike