By Will McGuirk
Art is the new news. If you wish to know whats happening in the world go to a gallery. If you want to survive the tsunami of information grab onto whatever floats.
Andy Shauf, photo by Colin Medley
“The great writer Thomas King, who is self-identifies as being of Cherokee, German and Greek descent, gave a series of lectures that became a book called The Truth About Stories. One of the lectures is called ‘You’re Not the Indian I Had In Mind’. It’s about the way white people often reject ways of being Indigenous that don’t meet their stereotypical expectations.
“I always loved that line, ‘Not the Indian I had in mind’. It really nailed something perfectly. I have experienced a similar phenomenon as a Jew. In my travels, people wanted to know if I was really Jewish, because they had notions in their minds of what was really authentically Jewish, and what was not. And anyone who was not, was maybe trying to trick them or something. They would decide if I was a real Jew.”
- Geoff Berner
"Life will always throw unforeseen circumstances at us that we cannot control. But what we can control is how we perceive them. Love or Hate. What do you choose?"
- Eric (Kane Incognito)
“I spent most of my twenties processing my dad’s death – thinking, writing and singing about it. In some ways, I feel like I processed it so fully that I grew a thick callus around the part of the loss that was very raw and fragile. At times I’ve resented the tough skin which was necessary to get through that hard time.”
- ZINNIA