‘When you go outside’ … Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency ( W. W. Norton & Company; May 12, 2020).
The Mekas image had a caption, drawn from 2007’s To New York with Love. YOU LOOK AT THE SUN. THEN YOU RETURN HOME AND YOU CAN’T WORK, YOU’RE IMPREGNATE WITH ALL THAT LIGHT. We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living. Don’t you want it, to be impregnate with all that light? And what will happen if you are?
— Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency ( W. W. Norton & Company; May 12, 2020)
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