The arts are now all about safe spaces.
Safe from thinking.
Safe from offending the protected groups.
Safe from rocking the boat.
Safe to travel with cocktail napkins from compliance shows to the hyper-normal projections on giant screens.
Soulless, vacuous breadcrumbs for the artists. Champagne for the “scene.”
No—I’m not here to create safe spaces. That’s not what art is for.
Art is meant to reflect society and ourselves. To lead us to the sacred.
This is why the institutions were first built: to protect the sacred.
The elite were once meant to be guardians of the finer.
Rasa (रस) means “juice,” “essence,” “taste.”
Now they protect the space from it—so that the sacred cannot enter and fulfill its purpose.
Those who dare to fulfill their purpose fly under a pirate flag.
With full awareness of the map, I keep doing what I’m meant to do.
And I hope more artists, patrons and enthusiasts begin to demand and build the same.
Together, we rise to create sacred spaces—
as it was always intended.
That’s where true safety lives: in the realization that nothing in this material world is permanent.
We are born. We get sick. We cling to illusions. We die.
And yet we grasp at the maya—believing there's safety in community, in family, in ideology.
We fight nature and the cosmic laws with arrogance, trying to control what was never ours.
We can’t even fully command our own thoughts, our bodies, or what lives in our hearts.
As if we aren’t just specks of dust staring into eternity.
Fools.
In some sense, I write this to the young artists of 2050—if we make it that far.
Don’t assume your time will be any different.
Not unless we succeed in rebuilding sacred space for the arts.
They always gatekeep the Van Goghs, the William Blakes, the Hilma af Klints.
Their being alone is a threat to the house of dumb cards.
They get celebrated only after death, once the machine can polish away their edges
and keep pretending that today’s messengers don’t exist.
But still—
Create.
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