from Sydney Morning Herald
Love of art will stop the advancing barbarians
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Happy new year! Hope everyone has a good start. Havent been blogging and working on stuff i should be doing due to great procrastination. It is an easy excuse to blame it on christmas and new year festive, but i had quite a good one. Got a few really nice presents for myself and others and saw a few good mates, which serenely ended my 2007. And if there is one resolution i would ever make and follow religiously, that will be... plan your christmas shopping early!
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First blog of the year is from Richard Flanagan who rethink art again, putting it back where it was once stemmed on a free ground of self-expression from the nowadays-let's-sell-art-and-Guggenheim era.

Like art, some things in life, you just cant buy and sell, like love from a mother, the crush on the girl in your class, the finest moment in your life, the thought you have for the person you are buying your next christmas present for. And i dont think art has as a category as its own strictly(am i right to say that??)- it almost encompasses everything in life from feelings, lifestyle, sciences to paintbrush. There is so much about art and human life one can marvel. Let's all keep exploring and live a better wiser year. Peace. x
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