the role of the artist is to load the gun.

an essay nearly entitled, “the orange trees teach me art-making.” This essay is a continuation of my prolonged look at revolutionary healers in practice to become one— where healing also includes artistry. What is my role as an freedom-minded artist, this side of revolution? Check the link to donate to the universal basic income program for Ebola Survivors in Kenema, Sierra Leone below!

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Theses:

A (art-making) = B(world-making) = C (truth-telling)

(1) One of the greatest powers held in the human sovereign world is the power to create and destroy: to make, shape and reshape the world and what we know to be true. I call this world-making.

(2) We are currently at war and (I would argue) in the exposition of a new world.

(3) This world is still actively being made. What constitutes power in the hands of the masses? What methods of world-making are truly available to us?

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Jazz of the Episode (sampling):

Melancholia x Wynton Marsalis

For All We Know x Ahmad Jamal

Why, Buzzardman, Why? X Alabaster DePlume

Tezeta x Mulatu Astatke

My Odoh - African Lofi x Lofi Afrobeats

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