Mojisola Adebayo - Guilt (generally and about the environment) is the most useless emotion for an artist - it’s embolising and it also reveals a massive ego “You know I did it.” Get over your guilt and just because you can’t do very much as an individual doesn’t mean you don’t do anything at all. Take the responsiblity and take informed choices.
Another danger is evenaglism - people don’t like preaching and art is a place for questions not answers. No preachers in art and we’re all in this together around this subject and I feel that every discussion today is about the environment.
We need to be wary of opportunism, of using climate change as an opportunity to take advantage of the subject - to make self indulgent, self important art.
From opportunism to opportunity, the romantic trandition mentioned this morning is where Mojisola sees herself. The subject has given her the opportunity to diversify from what people see as ‘black issues’ - race, crime, heritage etc. We limit ourselves about what we can talk about. A black woman making art about climate change?
War is also a huge player in this problem - there’s nothing you can do that’s more detrimental to the climate than war.
We need to make slow choices and slow art - let’s not buy carrot batons, let’s grow and cut our own carrots. All that chat about corporate money well let’s not take that money, let’s do it raw, let’s slow down and let it grow.
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