i must say, king, i really enjoy (if one can, ideed, use that word) your contributions to this digital community. your pieces are always lucid, grounded, and admirably eloquent. the content is razor-sharp! i have, of late, noticed the very same trends within our so-called artistic circles! it seems elitism has been the curtain call which has shored up the end of the democra-euphoric stage of our country. indeed, what we find now are merely entanglements on the canva**; sanctified race-cla** prejudice, and a celebration of peddling poverty for profit. there is no distracting our countrymen, it seems, from the pursuit of "clean" decadence. the artist suffers immensely from the aloof ma**es and the negligent goverment. south african lives oscillate en ma**e between commerce and the state; the canva** and the looseleafs gather dust, while decent dissent is thrown over dinner tables by the likes of Young and Roberts. there seems to be no interrogation beyond the superficial details of the apparent.
in elabortaion to your contribution, and your admonition against the plight of the struggling artist, i ask you to consider this interview with Thokozani Mthiyane.
http://www.unlikelystories.org/kaganof1104.shtml many of us can relate to his situation. obscurity, i believe, is something that should be fought and prevented at all costs. it should not be allowed to befall our our sharpest minds! especially now that art has been drowned in a deluge of design and advertising gimmicks; a postmodern era where art has become an Andy Warhol wet-dream and nothing more than thinly-veiled popular culture.
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