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the role of the artist is to load the gun.

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I write to you in a moment from 2024, where the sounds of the machine, business as usual, keep me up at night (words of @ivi_with_art on instagram). This loop of time, existing at once as a result of previous realities and made new in our iterations, contains human desires materialized into cascading moments of beauty juxtaposed with heinous war and death-making— and I am here, still breathing, an artist with goals of freedom. I am here to discuss what I owe to myself and what I owe to the people who make and remake me. Of course, we have to define terms before we go anywhere. What is art? While I personally think art is defined best by its effect rather than its mere existence, I submit collected definitions across a few dictionaries to find more tangible ideas. In the next handful of time, I am to convince you of the following theses: art-making is world-making (A=B), as seen in one of the above definition, the recreation of reality; the human effort to alter or counteract nature. Ar

an essay nearly entitled, “the orange trees teach me art-making.” Toni Cade Bambara speaks at University in 1983, with ismatu’s handwriting superimposed. introductions I write to you in a moment from 2024, where the sounds of the machine, business as usual, keep me up at night (words of @ivi_with_art on instagram). This loop of time, existing at once as a result of previous realities and made new in our iterations, contains human desires materialized into cascading moments of beauty juxtaposed with heinous war and death-making— and I am here, still breathing, an artist with goals of freedom. I

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