Truth to Power - All art is political.

You have a deluge of "jobs" as an artist. Marketing, accounting, event planning, logistics, and more before you even get in to the work that is learning new mediums.

But the most important job -wherever you want it or not- is speaking truth to power.

Now i know there are many artists who will disagree with that responsibility being thrust upon them. They'll say its not their place to critique politics, to make comment on the masses. Yet the definition of power is broader than any one political system or cultural cult.

When you document emotion in abstraction, when you celebrate the beauty in mundanity, when you decimate expectation with surrealism and absurdity - You are speaking truth to power. Our emotions, our patterns, the minutia of our lives, are all in fact incredibly powerful.

We may sweep it aside in the modern superiority of logic and systems, but never forget that the manipulation and exploitation of our base emotion, our patterns, and our ability to appreciate value which defies logic, forms the cornerstone of many power structures today.

So when you capture the truth in a feeling, when you enable people to better understand their emotion through reflection, when you remind people of how easily their patterns can trip them up, and how valuable a priceless moment is, then you speak truth to power.

You remind people that power is not a façade to throw rocks at, it is not something held externally with an iron grip, it is within all of us, our autonomy, our potential, magnified by the mass of 8 billion lives and all their feelings.... That is power.... and if we do not speak truth to it, ignorance will rob us of it.

The third of May 1808 - Francisco Goya