The truth is that life in Vancouver is pretty easy.
The weather is tolerable in the fall and spring, not bad in the winter and amazing in the summer.
People here have easy access to all they need to live - shelter, food, clothing, and medical care. It is safe here - crime, especially of the violent sort, is surprisingly rare.
Of course, there are those people, who through challenges in their lives, are unable to claim the resources available to them. Many of these people live on the streets of the downtown eastside.
This is a reality that I have learned by living here. That no matter what you have in front of you, the challenge always lives within.
People here, and everywhere, create challenges appropriate to their level of needs. At the bottom of our city, people are challenged with solving the problem of how to get that next hit. In the middle, people worry about their RRSPs and house payments, and the top, they worry about their businesses and image.
The girl at the club who is having the worst night of her life because her girlfriend left the party early for her ex boyfriend feels every bit as much stress and anguish as the homeless man who just lost a $10 bill to the wind and the waters of Coal Harbour.
The point I am getting at is that we have all we need in this city to live, and so we get the opportunity to create our own challenges, desires, and interests. Unlike the hundreds of millions around the world who are truly only concerned with basic needs such as food, health care, fear of rape or war, and protecting their children, we get to indulge.
That is what Inventions and Dimensions is to me. Inventing interests and passions through art. Creating new dimensions of emotion and experience through art. Giving more meaning to life through Art. Why? Because art is one of the most powerful ways that we can create connections to each other through shared experience, interest, and intrigue.
Art gives others the opportunity to start a conversation with us. It gives us the chance to challenge our ideas of the world. It gives us the ability to meet the artist in a way by contemplating their thoughts and ideas. To me, art isn't about colour or style, it is about the emotional responses that it triggers and the experiences that it gives way to.
My biggest hope is that through the art that we help to put out into the world, more people can connect, think, and live their lives in the richest way possible - to help them take advantage of all they have here and live life without the need to invent problems and crises.
The weather is tolerable in the fall and spring, not bad in the winter and amazing in the summer.
People here have easy access to all they need to live - shelter, food, clothing, and medical care. It is safe here - crime, especially of the violent sort, is surprisingly rare.
Of course, there are those people, who through challenges in their lives, are unable to claim the resources available to them. Many of these people live on the streets of the downtown eastside.
This is a reality that I have learned by living here. That no matter what you have in front of you, the challenge always lives within.
People here, and everywhere, create challenges appropriate to their level of needs. At the bottom of our city, people are challenged with solving the problem of how to get that next hit. In the middle, people worry about their RRSPs and house payments, and the top, they worry about their businesses and image.
The girl at the club who is having the worst night of her life because her girlfriend left the party early for her ex boyfriend feels every bit as much stress and anguish as the homeless man who just lost a $10 bill to the wind and the waters of Coal Harbour.
The point I am getting at is that we have all we need in this city to live, and so we get the opportunity to create our own challenges, desires, and interests. Unlike the hundreds of millions around the world who are truly only concerned with basic needs such as food, health care, fear of rape or war, and protecting their children, we get to indulge.
That is what Inventions and Dimensions is to me. Inventing interests and passions through art. Creating new dimensions of emotion and experience through art. Giving more meaning to life through Art. Why? Because art is one of the most powerful ways that we can create connections to each other through shared experience, interest, and intrigue.
Art gives others the opportunity to start a conversation with us. It gives us the chance to challenge our ideas of the world. It gives us the ability to meet the artist in a way by contemplating their thoughts and ideas. To me, art isn't about colour or style, it is about the emotional responses that it triggers and the experiences that it gives way to.
My biggest hope is that through the art that we help to put out into the world, more people can connect, think, and live their lives in the richest way possible - to help them take advantage of all they have here and live life without the need to invent problems and crises.
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