“When life gets heavy and the future feel overwhelmingly out of our control, we can learn to turn inwards and build a home inside of ourselves.” - Katie Pruitt
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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Sameer Cash, Katie Pruitt, Troy Junker, Juke Ross, Gold Star Gold Star, Leela Gilday, Soccer Mommy, Daysormay
By Will McGuirk
Watched a piece today on art galleries opening. Options included drive-thru and route markers. Most of these solutions seemed geared to getting numbers into the gallery and had little to do with the focus of a gallery which is, or at least should be, the artist and the art. In some of the galleries people were giving a certain amount of time and then had to move on. What a ridiculous and disrespectful notion! One needs time with art, the best art demands time, and rewards the time spent. One can read a novel several times over a lifetime and get something different each time. Art does that, art transcends time. Any gallery which puts a time limit on the experience of art is away in the before times and those times and infrastructures gave a platform for this Covid-19 virus. The same infrastructures will not offer us a way out. What will will be the creativity and invention and ingenuity of the artist. Rather than limiting exposure to art we should be maximizing it in all ways possibles. Art is the roadway we need to take to get out.
“With the rest of the world tucked under their covers endlessly scanning the news, we were present for the shift in real life, minute by minute. It all seemed so surreal, it was hard to relate to. Hard not to joke about. That night, we were all living in the active transition from one world to the next, we could feel it, it felt so close, yet so large and so out of reach.” - Sameer Cash
“To me, Pride Month is all about celebrating self-love. This year, we might not have the parties or parades, but it’s never really been about that. ‘Pride’ is a feeling that we find within ourselves. It’s a sigh of relief that we don’t have to hide anymore or alter our personality or preferences in order to make a Cisgender society more comfortable. So, when straight people ask, ‘Why don’t we have straight pride?’ I always respond with, ‘because society never told you to be ashamed.’” - Katie Pruitt