A key to Health & Art...?

INDIVIDUAL

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INTER-PERSONAL : SCIENCES

HUMANISTIC -------------------------------------------------- MECHANISTIC

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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"When you have no power, no rights, no privacy, and no control - when your humanity is denied and your liberty revoked - creativity can still save you. That is the radical message message of The Pencil is a Key, a potent and timely exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York. ... As Milton declared, "the mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven". The pencil can be a tool in this act of self-creation. Drawing unlocks the brain's shackles, empowering the passive prisoner with private forms of dignity and escape." p.15.

T h e P e n c i l

Chester Brost, Devon Daniels, Joseph Dole, Francisco “Paco” Estrada, Darrell W. Fair, R Dot Nandez,  Damon Locks, C. McLaurin, Flynard “Fly 1” Miller, Andrés Reyes, Sarah Ross,  B.R. Shaw, Bring, Johnny Taylor. The Long Term, 2017–2018. Video animation, 13:05 minutes. Courtesy of the artists. Image courtesy of C. McLaurin.

i s a K e y

My source:
Ariella Budick, The mind unlocked, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 2-3 November 2019, p.15.


... and looking forward next week to:

RCGP’s 7th Health and Justice Summit: Journeys Through Justice – Leadership and Transformation
Bristol, 25-26 November 2019

- on which more to follow ...