Unba//anced

language and words are treated like a dirty whore by the media and those adept at manipulating the media for their own benefit - they're used, abused, misconstrued, thrown away without a second thought.

i've been saying for a few years now that words can have power over you only if you let them. and the way i've been writing over the past two years reflects that. but maybe it's about time i give it some power back - but a positive power.

from adbusters #68, about modernism design:

Gropius and his friends fought against anxiety and meaninglessness, fought against the dull, futile ignorance they had seen all around them at the front. But instead of turning to human connection, to love, as a path out of the darkness, they chose to build a new world out of the mud, to build a utopia that did not admit death and disease and rain and trenches and blood, did not admit the primal, brutal, unkempt side of people. They just pretended it wasn’t there.

Now, I ask you. This man who started the Bauhaus, this great patriarch, one of the greatest influences on design in our time, did he design from fear or love?

i'm going to focus on creating from love, but keeping the realness and truth of life intact. no small feat, i'm afraid.

where are you creating from?

current mood: trying to create from love
current noise: "castles made of sand" by jimi hendrix