Janet Kaiser on tue 15 apr 03
I don't know, but suspect this is a first time for Clayart... Major Mel
starts a thread and decrees it will not be pursued, all in the same
breath!? In the meantime, he gets all bitter and twisted about the "Art
World". So what happens now? Do we all nod sagely in agreement or jump up
and down in violent disagreement, whilst 99% sit on the fence?
Personally, there really is nothing I can say just now without choking
up... The despair I have been feeling over the past days, weeks and months
are really only personified by those broken pots and other irreplaceable
artifacts lying on the floors of Iraqi museums. I don't watch TV, so I have
been spared all the images of this current conflict, just as I have never
seen any of the 9th September footage. In both cases, I can imagine that
there are people out there who get more upset by the looting and loss of
valuable assets such as real estate, than by the human losses which are
just so much "collateral damage".
But whether hammered and smashed 3,000 year old pots or broken and burned
bodies, I still think it is insensitive to say "it happens" at a time like
this. We are in mourning for much just now... Not least "civilization" and
the ideal of international co-operation as embodied in the United Nations.
Yes, Mel is right... It all only happens because we collectively allow it.
Whether it is the Art World or the Political World, there are dictators in
both. Some are democratically elected and others are self-appointed, but it
is the poor sods at the bottom of the pile who pay the price. Just potters?
I think not!
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser
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