Sunday, March 11, 2007

 

Being a Child of the Creative Age

by Makoto Fujimura

A keynote address by Makoto Fujimura at a recent International Arts Movement conference.

http://makotofujimura.blogspot.com/2007/03/being-child-of-creative-age.html

Being a Child of the Creative Age - keynote address by Makoto Fujimura (picture by John Hendrix)
(Picture by John Hendrix)

Excerpt from address:

"Artists, we are called to create in our ground zeroes, too. We need to be a voice of faith there. Yes, we have been alienated and orphaned. It is time to regard the age at hand, and take individual steps to move beyond the post-modern fog into the Creative Age... The Creative Age exists because of the opportunity presented by the crisis of our age. We face a precipice of despair and fear, a culture at a loss to offer what it means to be a human being. This culture herself is orphaned, and cannot see beyond her misery... It is time to read those faces, and build on faith. There's no other choice; To love is to remain human. We need to romance the culture in this present crisis. Woo her to love, and not fear. To do that is to be a true artist of the Creative Age... We need, as the children of the Creative Age, not only to create in love, but to create what love means in this culture. By doing so our art will begin to re-humanize the world."

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