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[William Morris] regarded the creation of a new society as more important than art-making, his own included..., but he also thought the choice between art and revolution was a false one, because art grew from 'thriving and unanxious life' and so required a great upheaval in the social order if it wasn't to become simply an outgrowth of capitalism, a pretty, pointless excrescence.
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I was exhausted by the perpetual, agonised now of the news. I didn't just want to journey backwards through the centuries. I wanted to move into a different understanding of time: the kind of time that moves in spirals or cycles, pulsing between rot and fertility, light and darkness.
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May 16, 2025 04:00AM
love morris' take (from the late 1800s!!) that art-making is essentially an antithesis to capitalist endeavours (and oh the irony of morris' prints being now primarily used as commercial fodder and consumer goods for middle-class living rooms)
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