great times

I am hav­ing a mo­men­tary thrill think­ing, not only of the mighty, in­spir­ing, pow­er­ful and de­light­ful art that will be made as a re­sult of this wrin­kle in time, but I tru­ly be­lieve – for bet­ter or worse, (as sure­ly both are soon to come) – this rad­i­cal, glob­al con­di­tion of ours is un­doubt­ed­ly the in­cu­ba­tor for a BRAND NEW art form or two – per­haps even a brand new eco­nom­ic mod­el.

I bet it will NOT be what we have imag­ined be­fore, in that dif­fer­ent past, but some­thing to­tal­ly else.

Be­cause, as the great Yogi Berra once said, “The fu­ture [most def­i­nite­ly] ain’t what it used to be!”

Right.

And if mon­ey is what we want more than any­thing, is there not a ton of it to be made in be­ing ahead of the curve in cre­at­ing a vi­sion­ary, glob­al, sus­tain­able fu­ture?

I have nev­er un­der­stood why we are so wed­ded to the eco­nom­ic mod­el of the past, to the fi­nite re­sources of the past, to even the work­er ex­ploita­tion mod­el of the past.

We can’t con­tin­ue to de­grade the en­vi­ron­ment we de­pend on. There are too damn many of us now.

I per­son­al­ly think that to dream of ‘get­ting back to nor­mal’ must be ad­mit­ted to be­ing … a dream.

We are in a new space now. We are fi­nal­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing our glob­al econ­o­my and in­ter­con­nect­ed­ness laid bare.

I don’t know much about glob­al fi­nances but it seems to me that busi­ness has long since un­der­stood that the na­tion-state mod­el is func­tion­al­ly ob­so­lete.

Wars and com­merce hap­pen on a more meta, glob­al lev­el. Like virus­es, for ex­am­ple.

I sure don’t have an­swers, so please don’t get all up in my grill, as they say. But maybe dif­fer­ent ques­tions will help.

 

Did you know you can or­der live roach­es on Ama­zon?

 

 

My To Do list is sud­den­ly three-di­men­sion­al.

. I’m fright­ened .

 

Thank you for your un­der­stand­ing.

Some­one from our team will con­tact you short­ly.

Have a nice day!

 

—lau­ra hohlwein

Flom­mist Lau­ra Hohlwein is a con­tem­po­rary ab­stract sur­re­al­ist. Copy­right © 2021 Lau­ra Hohlwein.

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