Artists Make The World

Worldbuilders R Us

I use the word “artist” in the most universal sense meaning a person who creates something beautiful or meaningful, using materials with love, understanding and sensitivity.

Whether you’re building your art out of paint, words, dirt or stones, you are building the world. Domination, profit motive, exploitation, utility, revenge, and even physical survival play little to no part of the impulse to make art.

We humans have an instinct to sing and dance, paint and write, fashion and build. There’s something soul satisfying in the process.

And yet we see the cultures of destruction in control of territories, governments, business and military budgets, which dominate the daily tenor of our lives. There seems to be a disconnect between acts and consequences in the consciousness of homo sapiens.

Are we too blind to see we’re destroying the world this way? Will the world have to be destroyed before we can connect our tiny vision to the end of history?

We hope not, but those of us who would rather spend our lives creating a little beauty and happiness off in our corner of the world may be drafted into a larger project.

We may be required to speak up for the soul of the world, which is suffering right now because it is being attacked by a human culture of…