2012-02-14
Artist colonies, like temples, are an expression of an energy of that particular place. It is a magnetic pull to a place; a sanctuary where the certain kind of energy flow occurs. It feels different compared to being away from it. Yet the energy is similar at other artist colonies.
That energy solidifies; grows stronger and becomes renewable in a positive feed-back loop. Yet they are not colonies so much as citadels, defending The Flow from encroachment. To be a true colony they need to expand, grow, become regenerative.
"Gaia Theory" explains that Earth is undergoing constant homeostatic balance from the perspective of space. Interlocking, mutually supportive positive feed-back loops supporting the whole and the parts. Taking the lessons from the whole, can be used as a fractal pattern at smaller scales, including the niche biome of artists in founder colonies.
That Earth is not one giant artist colony speaks of the "canary in the coal mine" warning that something is wrong. Even if the colony grows by a city block a decade, glacially slow, it is perfectly acceptable then the geologically slow loss of a city block a century, or millennia.
Franchise is another word for colonize. Money is usually the goal. Yet money is a means to an end in Artist Colonies, as it is everywhere else. It is here to be understood as, to expand the artist colony. To end the slow plight of the "starving artist". We are all supposed to be artists. All of us heard, but few of us listen, fewer still answer the call to be artists.
The stigma attached to artists is to get a "real job". Yet glass-blowing, bronze and marble sculpture, ceramics, gardening, mosaic, photography, book-binding, lacquering, micro-farming, flower arranging, painting, music, interior design and decorating, fashion, weaving, silk-screening, architecture, among others, are real jobs. Part of the Liberal Arts; liberal as in Liberty, freedom.
To create a micro-community within Artist Colonies using perhaps "Dotmocratic" voting on decisions, granted to residents, confirmed as permitted by the legal branch of a Consortium would strengthen the Colony and a positive-feed back loop of rent money in excess of yearly maintenance, repairs, taxes, would go to funding the slow evolutionary changes of the artist colony through the centuries, without losing sight of its origins and reason for being.
It is not supposed to be Bachelor, Master, or Doctor, but Apprentice Artist, Journeyman/Journeywoman, Artist, and Master Artist. Teaching hospitals, teaching schools, teaching artists shops. Passing on the torch of accumulated knowledge from our ancestor Master Artists, to the next, younger generations.
It would be a hybrid of:
-A teaching College of Artist Colleagues,
-A private housing community,
-A franchise,
-A archology,
-A republic, and,
-A live-work space, among others.
Ending the stigma of "starving artist", "liberal implies stoner hippie", "it's just a phase, theyll grow out of it", "rebel without a real cause/real chance of success", "failure, just not aware of it yet", "freak", not having a "real job", etc.
Artist Colonies are colonies of Classical Liberals, "...with Liberty and Justice for all."
-Daimon Born
Artist colonies, like temples, are an expression of an energy of that particular place. It is a magnetic pull to a place; a sanctuary where the certain kind of energy flow occurs. It feels different compared to being away from it. Yet the energy is similar at other artist colonies.
That energy solidifies; grows stronger and becomes renewable in a positive feed-back loop. Yet they are not colonies so much as citadels, defending The Flow from encroachment. To be a true colony they need to expand, grow, become regenerative.
"Gaia Theory" explains that Earth is undergoing constant homeostatic balance from the perspective of space. Interlocking, mutually supportive positive feed-back loops supporting the whole and the parts. Taking the lessons from the whole, can be used as a fractal pattern at smaller scales, including the niche biome of artists in founder colonies.
That Earth is not one giant artist colony speaks of the "canary in the coal mine" warning that something is wrong. Even if the colony grows by a city block a decade, glacially slow, it is perfectly acceptable then the geologically slow loss of a city block a century, or millennia.
Franchise is another word for colonize. Money is usually the goal. Yet money is a means to an end in Artist Colonies, as it is everywhere else. It is here to be understood as, to expand the artist colony. To end the slow plight of the "starving artist". We are all supposed to be artists. All of us heard, but few of us listen, fewer still answer the call to be artists.
The stigma attached to artists is to get a "real job". Yet glass-blowing, bronze and marble sculpture, ceramics, gardening, mosaic, photography, book-binding, lacquering, micro-farming, flower arranging, painting, music, interior design and decorating, fashion, weaving, silk-screening, architecture, among others, are real jobs. Part of the Liberal Arts; liberal as in Liberty, freedom.
To create a micro-community within Artist Colonies using perhaps "Dotmocratic" voting on decisions, granted to residents, confirmed as permitted by the legal branch of a Consortium would strengthen the Colony and a positive-feed back loop of rent money in excess of yearly maintenance, repairs, taxes, would go to funding the slow evolutionary changes of the artist colony through the centuries, without losing sight of its origins and reason for being.
It is not supposed to be Bachelor, Master, or Doctor, but Apprentice Artist, Journeyman/Journeywoman, Artist, and Master Artist. Teaching hospitals, teaching schools, teaching artists shops. Passing on the torch of accumulated knowledge from our ancestor Master Artists, to the next, younger generations.
It would be a hybrid of:
-A teaching College of Artist Colleagues,
-A private housing community,
-A franchise,
-A archology,
-A republic, and,
-A live-work space, among others.
Ending the stigma of "starving artist", "liberal implies stoner hippie", "it's just a phase, theyll grow out of it", "rebel without a real cause/real chance of success", "failure, just not aware of it yet", "freak", not having a "real job", etc.
Artist Colonies are colonies of Classical Liberals, "...with Liberty and Justice for all."
-Daimon Born
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