Thursday, April 30, 2009

"The mission of art"(From the Fraser Kee Scott blog)

"I want to show art that lifts society. I want to show art that lifts people spirits, that helps them to see deeper meaning in life and to question things and be happier. Society is in a lot of trouble. There is mass war, terrible illiteracy rates, people are being put on dangerous psychiatric drugs and American kids are now been screened for disorders and then put on drugs which mentally cripple them. There is lots of trouble. So I want to use art to reverse that. Art is hugely powerful, it can change the world, for better or worse, and I choose better. We have a choice, we can take the degraded easy route of cheap kicks and following the crowd down the path of worsening conditions in society, or we can use art to point out the basic good nature of man and to lift him by providing beauty." Q. Can you share some of your philosophy about art and artistic creation? -
A. "Art is the creation of dreams without which society could not survive. Imagine rush hour traffic day after day with no radio, looooonnnng train rides with no books, no movies on the weekend, etc. etc... no relief from stress, people would go mad and the world would not last. Art is the injection of life into society" ... Q. What trends do you see in the 'art world'?
A. "Well, there are trends in the artworld that the public as a whole are presented and there are the real trends in the artworld. Basically the world media is completely insane! The media likes to tell as much bad news as it can. One of the main reasons for this is that bad news sells. People are basically good so if they see something bad they feel bad if they don't look so they can see if they can help or so they can sympathise at least, and the media knows this, they know that when a huge disaster happens they sell the most news papers, so they concentrate on bad news.Also the main media networks are quite suppressive in other ways and tend to be quite destructive to society as a whole. So they give art a very bad name. The papers love to talk about art in terms of the mad artists and their crazy ideas that don't mean anything to anyone. The papers love to portray Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and all their stupid ideas and the whole time what they are doing is alienating the public from art, which actually the public needs, just the same as they need food.You know, you survey people on the street about what they think about art and the main answer you will get is 'Oh, what a load of rubbish, a pickled shark, a pile of old bricks, I could do better!' and they are right! But the truth is there are millions of dedicated honest artists who daily are doing better, much better, creating beautiful work of integrity that people would love, but which is hidden from them by the 'Art of the day' which actually is not the art of the day at all but a smokescreen."

Wednesday, April 22, 2009


Scientologsits around the world.

This blog contains links to the sites of scientologists around the world...but not only scientologist! In general,to the sites of creative people whose intention is to make this world a better world!