connecting*the*dots

That great statement was captured in the front room of the elsewhere artist collaborative, right next door to The Scene on South Elm.

I just started going through some of their writings… interesting stuff. From organizational thoughts 2:

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Politics is inherently artful and art is a manipulation of medium. To combine art and politics is to make the medium people and the property medium. Elsewhere’s political notion of collaboration is the balance of individual and community, where the individual is given full rights to application of the common property so long as use of such property is not distructive[1] to the community. The individual is the depleater[2], abuser, and the one to be feared, thus the community must protect itself from abuse. Abuse is about individual disregarding the needs of other individuals and disregarding the community needs as defined by the individual perception. However, in the jumbled state that this iterates, the individuals are disregarding and subjecting the environment by their ill perceptions of its maximus[3] capability. A fully applied concept does not insure that the individuals will produce great art as individuals, but a community governed by a thoughtful populace, an informed and informing populace, is partaking in the conceptual framework that directs the space. If there is constant flux in conceptual ideology issued by well-expressed discussion and submission of idea then everyone is participating in collaborative art.

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I’m diggin’ my new neighborhood.