Dear artist who is holding it together in silence,
Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope. Only art can take the holler of a returning soldier and turn it into a shared expression and a deep, collective experience. Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so it can be
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The other day I half-woke from a nap and scribbled down the line: “the normalization and curation of collapse.”
It’s about the ways the over-culture, celebrities, politicians, the wealthy are pretending everything is normal. While we watch a holocaust livestream into our psyches, they churn out albums and merch about the show of it all.
Joyful Persistence: My Talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing Graduation
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