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The only antidote to destruction is creation.

The game we are now playing is for keeps; this is an age that may see us either go down the drain or create a whole new civilization. Precisely because the standing of posterity is so tenuous, art is now more relevant than it has ever been. Artfulness, playfulness, seriousness, connectedness, structure, wholeness. And heart. So the issues raised in this book also point toward some activity beyond individual creativity, beyond art. Let us call it the Imaginary Liberation Front. Not art for art’s sake, but art for life’s sake.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play, 1990.

Each time you enter here you get an unpredictable walk through these thoughts. Come back tomorrow & get a different selection, or maybe one of the same pages but in a different context. New ones are added as time goes by; others refined.

Images, tools for thought, for the reconstruction era to come someday. Messages in a bottle to be set afloat & opened by you & who-knows-who-else, perhaps children of a future age.

 

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