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   Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 23:17:08 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   Yes, very few people make a living doing art, and even fewer make a living doing the art they want. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like there's something about art that is anti-fascist and anti-capitalist. Authoritarians fear self expression, arts always seem the first to go when things get more conservative, and yet it has never stopped us. If they take everything away, we will draw on cave walls with charcoal from a fire, make dolls of corn husks, carve bones into beads, make bowls of mud, write stories in blood, make musical instruments out of anything, we will remember our history through song. We will pass these things down as evidence that we could never completely be silenced, we were here, we matter.

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     Alex (mentallyalex@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 23:17:13 JST Alex

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     @RickiTarr love that Andrea Fraser got the cover. I would include Amanda Palmer in that audience. I've read about some of her projects and they are thought provoking and often disruptive.

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     Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 23:17:14 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

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     https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-artists-rebelled-patrons-institutions-supported-work

     An interesting article about artistic rebellion.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 10:22:31 JST Sick Sun

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     @RickiTarr lol ok if you think people didn’t use art to express sincere belief in things you, specifically, find evil
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     🐛 (apophis@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 11:31:42 JST 🐛

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     @RickiTarr @ariaflame that seems more a rich ppl thing than necessarily an authoritarian thing
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     Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 11:31:43 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

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     @ariaflame Well put. They so want to OWN artistic expression, but it doesn't work that way

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     Ariaflame (ariaflame@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 11:31:44 JST Ariaflame

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     @RickiTarr They like pretty things they can brag about their friends to, but not art, because art at its fundamentals helps us to see the world as it is, or as it could be and it's a little too much truth for authoritarians.