the responsibilities of artists in school

Can we start fuck­ing act­ing like ARTISTS?

Not pi­geon­hole our­selves as stu­dents, cor­po­rate ‘yes men’ or blun­der-head­ed work hors­es who go where you tell them to go.

You are a ARTIST. Do you re­mem­ber what that means?

art·ist   ˈärdəst/
noun.
a per­son who pro­duces paint­ings or draw­ings as a pro­fes­sion or hob­by.

syn­onyms
de­sign­er, cre­ator, orig­i­na­tor, pro­duc­er;
old mas­ter
“a mur­al artist”
a per­son who prac­tices any of the var­i­ous cre­ative arts, such as a sculp­tor, nov­el­ist, poet, or film­mak­er.
a per­son skilled at a par­tic­u­lar task or oc­cu­pa­tion.
“a sur­geon who is an artist with the scalpel”
syn­onyms
ex­pert, mas­ter, mae­stro, past mas­ter, vir­tu­oso, ge­nius;

ART·IST
Anarchist/Contrarian
A per­son who cre­ates.
Anti-virus to a sick­ened so­ci­ety.
A per­son who says fuck it to the cor­po­rate bull­shit.
A per­son who doesn’t lay down to be walked on.
A con­trib­u­tor to the hive mind, choos­ing to warn
oth­ers of the Maester Con­troller.

You are not a stu­dent. You are not a work­er bee. You are not a pa­thet­ic cog to a fail­ing ma­chine, yet you let your­self get stepped on and re­greased by any me­chan­ic who picks you up from the garage sale.

Are you afraid of what may hap­pen to you? Are you afraid of your fu­ture? Do you know why you’re afraid? You set your­self up to be in the hands of oth­ers. You set your­self up to be an­oth­er person’s de­ci­sion.

You young adults are so bloody afraid of be­ing a god­damn adult you can’t even be an artist! You’re still the kid who sits in the cor­ner and draws. Be bet­ter than that.

Go fuck­ing de­fine your­self. You have a lot to get done.
 
 

—brit­tknee

Flom­mist Brit­tknee fre­quents cof­fee shops. Her sec­ond self, Car­la, fre­quents the work­sta­tion. Bleary-eyed. Fore­head scrunched. Fum­bling through your re­al­i­ty. March­ing through our own. Copy­right © 2016 Brit­tknee.

MOR D’ARTÍCULOS  MOR FLOMM !

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