Aviva, I wanted to write just a short note in response, but I couldn’t help myself... you know what I am like. Your words open too many essential doors. And I invite the readers to emotional inside this and the other articles you wrote. What you write sometimes makes me feel like a UFO, an entity external to the world, and makes me look at the world with clear eyes. Then as you know, the situation in Gaza but also in the West Bank lately hurts me a lot as a human beings.
Your decision to treat Gaza as a subject that demands its own space is powerful. It is a ground zero of genocide, but also a brutal mirror of the hypocrisy of power. Too many aligned voices, especially in mainstream media, still try to portray it as a “separate story,” disconnected from the systemic violence you so insightfully name. But Gaza is not an exception, it is part of the wheel of history repeating itself, where the victim, once forgetful, becomes the perpetrator. If history no longer teaches us, and human nature fails to evolve, then maybe we truly do need to change the very anthropology of our species.
I tried to reflect on this in my painting Artificial Deficiency. It speaks not just to the cognitive risks of AI, but to how technology is becoming a tool of global manipulation, used by a handful of powers playing recklessly with human lives, almost like a game.
But here’s where I also feel the need to speak from within our own field: art. One of the greatest tragedies of today’s art world is that the part of it that gets the stage: the visibility, the platform, seems to live in its own self-referential bubble. It’s no longer truly intellectual, nor does it engage the broader public in a populist sense. It floats in a kind of radical-chic vacuum, disconnected from both struggle and transformation. And so its voice, like yours, like ours, often feels isolated. But art should never have been ornamental. It should be a trigger, a disruption, a tool to read and reimagine the world.
Like your use of blue as underpainting for a new vision, I believe we need to underpaint the entire system, one anomaly at a time, but a radical change until something finally shifts.
But regarding this, perhaps all or the majority can agree and perhaps the means are already there, even your Trigger Point Theory... it could become reality if only we could educate and convince the masses to feel united and not like states... here lies the complexity
Thank you for continuing to speak truth in a world anesthetized by spectacle
Aviva, I wanted to write just a short note in response, but I couldn’t help myself... you know what I am like. Your words open too many essential doors. And I invite the readers to emotional inside this and the other articles you wrote. What you write sometimes makes me feel like a UFO, an entity external to the world, and makes me look at the world with clear eyes. Then as you know, the situation in Gaza but also in the West Bank lately hurts me a lot as a human beings.
Your decision to treat Gaza as a subject that demands its own space is powerful. It is a ground zero of genocide, but also a brutal mirror of the hypocrisy of power. Too many aligned voices, especially in mainstream media, still try to portray it as a “separate story,” disconnected from the systemic violence you so insightfully name. But Gaza is not an exception, it is part of the wheel of history repeating itself, where the victim, once forgetful, becomes the perpetrator. If history no longer teaches us, and human nature fails to evolve, then maybe we truly do need to change the very anthropology of our species.
I tried to reflect on this in my painting Artificial Deficiency. It speaks not just to the cognitive risks of AI, but to how technology is becoming a tool of global manipulation, used by a handful of powers playing recklessly with human lives, almost like a game.
But here’s where I also feel the need to speak from within our own field: art. One of the greatest tragedies of today’s art world is that the part of it that gets the stage: the visibility, the platform, seems to live in its own self-referential bubble. It’s no longer truly intellectual, nor does it engage the broader public in a populist sense. It floats in a kind of radical-chic vacuum, disconnected from both struggle and transformation. And so its voice, like yours, like ours, often feels isolated. But art should never have been ornamental. It should be a trigger, a disruption, a tool to read and reimagine the world.
Like your use of blue as underpainting for a new vision, I believe we need to underpaint the entire system, one anomaly at a time, but a radical change until something finally shifts.
But regarding this, perhaps all or the majority can agree and perhaps the means are already there, even your Trigger Point Theory... it could become reality if only we could educate and convince the masses to feel united and not like states... here lies the complexity
Thank you for continuing to speak truth in a world anesthetized by spectacle