Friday, October 21, 2016

Who Will Take Care Of The Public Artist?


Who will take care of us?  It is a fundamental question that plaques all humans thereby steering all cultures.  We are in the midst of a public art build and have been hounded by low-level public servants over every conceivable issue.  To give you an example a young city engineer has followed us around taking pictures, measuring and continually meeting with the Arts Director.  Because the plaza where we are building lies above a parking garage nothing can weigh more than 100 lbs./sq./ft. and she has a clipboard and calculator that she continually figures on.  At one point my daughter-in-law made an astute observation, “a large man couldn’t sit on the plaza, they would have to continually shoo him off.”  This continual supervision of your life by the state is likely to become more and more the norm as a culture who has rejected God seeks to still answer the fundamental question, “who will take care of us?” 


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