The Art of Humanity
Four Cranes Taking Flight from Water by Angela Marie Morton As someone who prefers an unpleasant truth to a comforting delusion, I am unable to escape the reality of the current hellscape humans have brought upon our tiny blue dot called Earth, and upon all its inhabitants. Despite my best efforts and intentions to not actively participate in our collective doom, I, too, am complicit in contributing to it. As are we all, to varying degrees. By acknowledging this disturbing and unsettling fact, I am able to see it clearly, and take skillful, creative actions to counter it, using whatever means are available to me, and in ways that are aligned with my values and principles. One of those methods is through making and sharing art. That being said, at times I have worried that my work is not relevant to the events playing out in our daily lives. When I expressed this to my husband recently, he reminded me that, throughout history, people have continued to live their lives in the face ...