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MR. BOOTS | FUSION GALLERY

Coca-Cola feeds children and cures all disease

You are medicated.

Logos, street signs, and advertisements enter your bloodstream through your eyes and make their way to your brain. They steer your emotions toward an economic end and take over your body as you drive and as you shop.

Colors and symbols are used like drugs to make us feel alternately patriotic, hungry, and horny. Art has the same power and it requires a conscious responsibility. Art can serve a culture that celebrates violence and death, or it can build a new culture that loves living more that it loves killing.

But ask Geronimo: An appeal for love and peace won’t prevent this culture from building bigger bombs or killing nature with abandon. Art won’t save the world, but it can clear our heads and encourage us to give a damn.

Q: How do you end a culture that has a zombie fetish, a fixation on death, and a compulsive fear of nature? How do you stop a society that’s killing the planet?

A: As quickly as possible.

Coca-Cola feeds children and cures all disease
Fuck compartmentalization
If you can buy it, burn it
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost

 

Alex Durán

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