on art and death
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where there is love there is grief
i make art because it makes me happy
and i also make art because i want to support life
and i can't think about life without thinking about death
i'm not averse to death inherently - death is a necessary part of our cycle and a transition
i am devastated by and adverse to unnecessary death. death that is before its time, outside of time. death that disrupts our cycles and carries grief that is impossibly or insurmountably difficult to soothe. death that is not generative of life, not necessary to living.
i make my clay candle holders and i think about death
i think about Palestinians making traditional clay pots from the earth to cook
people in Sudan repairing their homes after flood
lichen falling from the trees to give nitrogen to the forest floor bc the salmon has been killed off
i think about how art is the practice of life