Complaint
Re: Parents who fail to vaccinate their children
Today, many parents fail to provide time tested vaccinations to their children, claiming to do it to prevent birth defects such as autism that occur on an in vitro, genetic level, as opposed to postnatal influence.
Drop in parental caution towards children’s vaccination has led to the reintroduction of some very nasty illnesses into our society. Many of which are leading causes of death for infants.
We have created these vaccines in an effort to protect our young. However, parents with little scientific background remove this lifeline from their children in order to “allow them to lead a more natural life”.
Children that are the product of such environments even risk spreading disease into the adult population; which the same immunizations are ata much lower potency and take more effort to defend the body.
In order to change this; I’d like to create a confrontational piece of art to display my sentiment. The importance of vaccinating your children cannot be understated. I’d like to create an image of a skeletal baby with possible cures to its cause of death dangle over its head from a mobile; as it is too young to be able to articulate its needs.the baby’s parents (who possibly loom in shadow) have effectively killed their baby via lack of vaccinations.
(quotes I did not get a chance to transfer to my notebook)
Seeing Power, Chapter 4
“Social capital, in turn, represents the estimated financial benefits associated with someone’s power inside a specific milieu, as well as the benefits one acquires from simply operating within a particular field. For example, whether one is good at navigating the field of Ivy League prep schools or not, one nevertheless benefits greatly from simply being born into this particular field.”
This quote was rather important to me, as it puts into perspective just how important certain life experiences that we may take for granted can be. And there is that resonating idea that this social capital is not freely available; as it results from your family’s station in life for the most part.
“Yet critique does not benefit everyone equally. In a constant state of precarity—without predictability or security—no one wants to burn a bridge. Everyone likes to watch a battle from a distance, but is all too aware of its potential damage down the road.”
I liked this quote; I feel like it not only satisfies a comment about art activism, but even the human condition as a whole. People are drawn to the idea of drama, that’s why there are popular accounts such as worldstar. But no one ideally ever wants to start a fight. We are content with sitting by and enjoying watching what unfolds before us. Art activism is a call to people to stop sitting idly by and join the fray.
The Absurd and Outrageous Trial of Pussy Riot
“And yet it is not even clear what the witnesses actually saw: the performance was in an almost empty cathedral (the Pussy Riot women chose the time when there was no service) and lasted barely thirty or forty seconds before the women were driven out.”
Honestly this section of the paper had upset me. It reveals that the women were under fire for an action that had taken place in a public space, arranged to not conflict with any religious celebration or practice, in the timespan of less than a minute; and was still called an attack upon religion as well as the state.
“Back in 1964, Brodsky said at the trial that he thought being a poet didn’t require any special education: “I think this is … from God.” Back then, a mere mention of God and faith was a mark of defiance, a challenge to Communism’s ideological supremacy. In the atheist Soviet state of those years, the church was allowed to exist, but it was fully marginalized, submissive to the state and readily coöperated with the Communist leadership.”
I found this to be an important addition to the piece. It contradicts today’s beliefs held by the Russian church and state locked, that to disrespect one is to disrespect both. Russia didn't always believe that good practitioners must vote a certain way or be enslaved to their own mainstream. To revere god in any government instance was once to effectively oppose communism. Perhaps the marginalization of religion is why it began to push to support the state; in order to effectively create worshippers of not only god, but the mainstream political agenda that had little regard for them as well.
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