I'd like him to say what he means. Give context. Because we've seen just how much misinformation and choosing our meaning for things has caused great harm this week.
As well as his shit going for millions: one of his new pieces stolen within hours to go and get sold somewhere I'm sure.
Happy to be corrected, but it feels very off to me.
(I know people selling and profiting off of his work, is not his fault, fwiw)
https://hackers.town/@kestral/112938800749370111 I understand and appreciate what Kestral said here, fwiw.
I'm probably just being unnecessarily salty and putting too much onus on the artist.
I've a lot of stress from what's going on and at first glance I'm like, just give a little context so the message is understood by those who need to hear it most.
I accept being wrong on that
@james no, I think you’re right. Art is communication. Sometimes, the message is only for a small audience, so it doesn’t need to make sense to most people. Who is B’s target audience? Do they understand the message? If not, the communication, and the art, has failed. Either that or the target audience is too narrow and the artist’s intention is bad.
@james
I'm always going back and forth between two ends
- artists just make art and we shouldn't put expectations on them, it's not their job to fix society.
- artists should use their platform and take responsibility.
I really agree with both of those statements. So yeah I understand you'd like banksy to do something but I also think that that's not his job?
