These are some notes that are part of an on-going attempt to re-imagine a financial ecosystem that involves artists and is based on value ecosystems rather than market economy.
These explorations come from witnessing and experiencing limitations of values expressed through the relational being of one’s art practice outwardly, and the excessive exhaustion as a result of navigating unaligned permissions and complicities.
Thoughts and questions are part of a life-long process, they are by no means conclusive, and do not come from me alone, but come from what I’m already embedded within — the communities that I innately belong and do not hold scanning machines of eligibility tickets.
These motions in the body, heart, and mind are effect of being in a world where the grasping of sufferings is omnipresent, where stability is no longer a byproduct of casual participation, but one that is afforded when choices are made. Those choices speak to our relationship building, and is felt with much more weight when value becomes the compass. It seems important to reframe our differences in order to uphold the potential of partnerships, so that we do not turn away from worlds where disagreements are found.
