this year is gonna be amazing. AR is strong and will get even stronger. Veganism is a must by now, yeah and even the moral “musts” take till they take over a world with 7 billion humans. This is no utopic talk, this is the evolution of revolution … .

A HAPPY AND CREATIVE 2012 TO ALL THE GOOD MINDED FRIENDS

We wish you a Happy New Year!!! Let’s start it with optimism and with realistically good intentions – let’s put all energy to change the huge problems we face. with a consciousness that understand how grassroots political approaches turn us into practical revolutionaries.

We wish everybody a great new year! Stay critical, stay creative, be confident about the good things you can do and share a thoughtful and co-sensitive confidence in your co-beings and yourself.

The mind and the thoughts are free – good that it’s so – but why does my mind whirl in thoughts, I mean, why is my mind constantly occupied with thinking and with thoughts?

When I hear the word LOVE – I do think. When I hear a dog barking – I think. When I hear a car that went fast stopping – I think. When I hear a weather forcast – I think. When I see the picture of a politician – I think. When I read the results of a poll – I think. When I see the packed shopping cart of the customer in a supermarket – I think. Would I speak all my thoughts, the result was an ongoing river of speech, starting from dawn to the mid of night.

I rethink
I prethink
sometimes I think solo
sometimes in a choir
I think black
I think blue
I think as a man
I think as a woman
I think soft
I think hard
I think at the goal
I think at the start
I think in darkness
I think in light
I don’t think
when I am in love
I think high
I think deep
I think, think, think
until my star has called for me.

We are wishing you a constructive 2009. For Animal Rights and the Environment and for Human Rights.
Thank you for being there. Keep on the good works you guys are doing!

Yours,

Farangis Yegane and Palang Latif

Point of Silence

Withdrawn
into the initials of my spiral,
from within my fruits kernel,
antennas pulled in
inside of my snailhouse,
outside-coldness,
outside-noisyness,
the point of silence of my self,
some time
the starting ray that emits from my inner circle.

A poem and linoleum print by Farangis, CLICK TO ENLARGE:

Around where we live people like to fully light their houses with energy saving lamps. In that way they use more energy for illumination purposes than if they used less light-sources with old-fashioned light bulbs. Also I have the vague impression that people don’t take their spent energy-saving light bulbs to the “special trash” place where the bulbs should be properly disposed of or meterials be recycled. Compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury and other unwholesome things, see ‘Mercury, the downside of energy-saving bulbs‘, ‘Look Ma! NO MERCURY Energy Saving light bulbs!‘, ‘CFL Bulbs Have One Hitch: Toxic Mercury‘ … .

But, no matter what the source of light is, the bright mystery remains why we reject the “DARK” so much as the side where evil and irrationality reigns and why we prefer the “LIGHT” as the source where all good comes from.

Darkness is the home of inspiration I believe, and fantasy usually accompanies irrationality.

The Night: Information pertaining to the night sky, light pollution and the ecology of the night, Anthony Arrigo
http://the-night.blogspot.com/

The International Dark-Sky Association
http://www.darksky.org/

Starry Night Lights
Enhance The Beauty Of Your Home With Night Sky Friendly Outdoor Lighting
http://www.starrynightlights.com/

Light Pollution – the problem
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~atolea/second/page1.html

LightPollution.org.uk
http://www.lightpollution.org.uk/

Light pollution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution

Poetry, Farangis Yegane:
http://poetry.edition.farangis.de/yhbs/nightblind

And here is a nice song, I think by Hosseini: a pop song about Simorgh.mp3

Links regarding the subject: IMPACTS ONE CAN MAKE THROUGH ARTS,

i.e. isn’t that visual communication!

Holocaust Art Impacts Visitors (article at http://media.www.universitychronicle.com) follow link here

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“Certainly, it’s a stretch to point to one single work of art as having changed the world. Nor can one point to any one single event or person as having accomplished that. The root of all change is a (grass-roots) movement: monotheism, democracy, industrialization, environmentalism; the list throughout history is immense. All of these have art as an integral part, directly or not, because art is a part of all human endeavors.” – Susan Lucier http://artmutt.blogspot.com

follow this link here for the complete essay

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“Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
“Kunst ist nicht ein Spiegel, den man der Wirklichkeit vorhaelt, sondern ein Hammer, mit dem man sie gestaltet.” – Bertolt Brecht

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The Whole Ball of Wax

Can Art Change the World?

A Holistic Theory by Jerry Saltz

“In concert with other things, however, art can change the world incrementally and by osmosis. This is because art is part of a universal force. It has no less purpose or meaning than science, religion, philosophy, politics, or any other discipline, and is as much a form of intelligence or knowing as a first kiss, a last goodbye, or an algebraic equation. Art is an energy source that helps make change possible; it sees things in clusters and constellations rather than rigid systems.”

follow this link for the complete article on the http://www.villagevoice.com/ site: here

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My two cents are:

If an artist admits that “art can change the world” she is aware of her responsibility. She is okay with being held responsible for the message she puts across.

Female power in (English, German, French and Turkish) newspaper articles, linoleum handprints, in an edition of 50.