In a world fast being shaped by collapse and complexity, artists are not a luxury. They are a necessity. They don’t just interpret culture — they recreate it. They hold space for grief, birth, possibility, and spark the kinds of insights that can’t be beta-tested but must be lived.

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Like our own imagination, art can wander off, seeking out the edges, the borderlands, the mysteries. Indeed, this autonomy is art’s power and part of its emotional appeal. But this very ability to separate from everyday material life may also make art impotent in trying to shape the world from which it has escaped. At most it can be a nudge or a su

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