postfuturist manifesto #2

i am for an art (response to
Claes Oldenburg's original poem)

i am for an art of aesthetics
i am for an art of creative self-expression
i am for an art that bends over backwards to make itself understood
i am for an art that dips its brush into the paintbucket of dreams
& paints on the canvas of reality
i am for an art of design & craft & intention
and
i am for an art of divinely inspired improvisation
i am for an art of truth
& beauty
& truth & beauty & truth
& i am for an art of shared experience & transcended pain
i am for an art of carefulness & of fortunate happenstance
i am for an art of honesty
& i am for an art
that cares nothing for the title of its creator
artist, writer, dreamer, designer, poet, craftsperson, student or singer
famous or infamous or anonymous
i am for an art that gets itself made

i am not for the art that smears itself on the wall
& i am not for the art that speaks only of itself
& i am not for the art that seeks only to shock, offend, attack & destroy

i am for an art that feeds me
or i am not for art

PS - Even if I hate your art I'll defend to the death your right to do it

©copyright 1996 the spelunkers of the collective unconscious