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Dreams and drudgery

Who has the right to write and that too poetry. Has there been much poetry written  by farmers, field workers, the poor or women   The reason why all the poetry, I mean, the known poetry is written by those who had the money, the leisure to dream! It doesn't mean that those who lived a humble life didn't dream, or didn't write. They did, but according to Ranciere, "visibility" differentiated between  the two, "men of  leisure  and men of necessity",  those who are seen and  those who remain unseen, and unheard,  those who think, and those who cannot think! Ranciere's bourgeois masters were creators and thinkers while their workers who could have been artists, poets, and thinkers, in their own right, were not able to/couldn't create. Yes, those who had the time, the money and the luxury of having leisure as their vocation, and those who led a life of drudgery. They also wrote, but remained uncelebrated! In the French revolution when ...

Art and the artist

At the art exhibition on 5th of May evening, it was  the Vivid a celebration of light, and colours,  some  really bright, and happy colours,   coral pinks, mauve blues, turquoise greens, peach oranges, lime yellows,  splashed, on stark white or dark canvas,  shiny, sparkling, artistically woven, and knitted beautifully  in the shapes of strange sea creatures, corals, and mythical sea birds  as they may appear in a little girl's dreams,  and the artist, herself beaming, radiant,  bright eyed, with childlike simplicity,  full of glee and honesty about her dreams, fears, her love and happiness,  opening a door, just ajar,  with a shaft of light,  letting us in, into her world, beckoning us to see how she imagines the world to be.    Art Exhibition May 5, 2021: Underneath the Veneer by Neis Wai https://artshinelicensing.com/artists/neis-wai/