Is All That has Been Done Lost?

by Thomas

I am about to get the second signature on my thesis before I go to turn it in. Walker has finished, and I am about to. As we attempt to foil our own departures to something new, we ask the question, what does this mean?

I should feel completely relieved. I should be satisfied and happy, and I am undoubtedly getting there, but I can't help but imagine that there is no such thing as a break from this. I wrote one paper today, I will write another tomorrow. I am not even good at writing papers.

As for Walker, 2.0 is underway as we speak. He probably paused more than he usually does, but it's not about the singular achievement, it's about what is behind those achievements. The same may go for this project. We may not be able to boil down modern day art into the simple "s'all screwed up" mission statement. We may need to go farther.

We are about finished (by that I mean Walker is done and I have a few days to go), but does it matter? Southwest; Northeast. Are we trapped? Is art going to become a pseudo-modern day Chinaredcapitalist phenomenon? Is Damien Hirst (and by DH, I mean crap) going to become the one and only artist people care about. Do people care about art at all, or do they care about it because it is a status symbol, a thing people can point to and say, "they are wealthy/intellectual/snooty enough to care about art,"? I know people care. Do you?

Do we believe in this? Are things out there? Is all that has been done lost?