A Quote by Jock Sturges
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
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I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend on are disposable as well. What gives me hope is the kind of bridgework I'm seeing between social movements on the one hand, and young writers and artists on the other, all intent on opposing such pitiless, short-term thinking.
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