Meditation On A World Without Art
“The Los Angeles Unified School District has proposed total elimination of its elementary school arts education program. This unprecedented step will reverse a ten-year effort made by the District to restore arts education to its 700,000 students.” Arts For LA , February 6, 2012 In a world without color, no one looks for rainbows after a storm. No one looks for truth in blue skies. The word green has no meaning. In a world without beauty, we will once again be people lost in a desert. In a void, all journeys are stillborn. Stars in the night sky are ignored. There is everything mired in nothing. In a world with abstract numbers and words, no one recognizes the poetry falling from trees or the patterns inside us mirroring the universe. There is no cohesion, no connection. We wait patiently in the dark by dead telephones for a voice we have not been taught to hear. In a world without song, we lose the ability to fly. We grumble and m...