The Silent Power of Art in Politics
Yesterday a reporter asked me why I thought art was important in politics. “Politics is people talking to us and at us. It’s words. The barrage of words today is so overwhelming that we can often no longer even hear or process them. Art presents things viscerally and immediately. Silently. So that the message enters us through the heart or the soul.” Of course, I see the irony in my use of words to disparage the use of words. So I will keep my words to a minimum here and simp