Ever wondered what its feels like to save a life?

It’s a question that pursued me for a decade. Is saving a life a choice? A once in a lifetime opportunity? Like saving someone from drowning, or choking? I spoke to people who had done it, some of them more than once. And, I wondered, is it possible to decide to save a life, then

Does art always have value?

writing about ‘art’ is challenging from the offset, for the simple reason of ‘art’ being a huge realm. So, talking about value, what do I mean? What is the value of a child’s drawing? Many fold… pleasure for the creative child, practice of their skills, experience of creation, the joy of the parent seeing it,

Does art need to serve anyone to be important ? Does art need to be important ?

Importance and value. Hmmm. The child’s painting is important, and maybe art is always important? Possibly. Some art is more important than other? Perhaps. Sometimes I see art in terms of ‘good and bad’ important and trivial, and other times it all merges into one, a formless essence, all of it related, all of it

Artists are frequently selfish , self obsessed and self focused. This I know .

Art these days lacks balls. The YBA era had balls. Street art has balls. Today , what do we see? No balls.

Triviality in art is the only real heresy.

As an artist , how does your work or practice serve society , humanity , God, someone , anything ? How does it serve?

Artists tend to be quite aware of the problems of the world, yet from what I see, very few seem interested in exploring these problems, never mind attempting to create any sort of solution. Why?

The major flaw with capitalism is its occasional prioritisation of money over life. Scaled up, this has become systemically problematic.

Solving real world problems? This is what business teaches.