sharing this substack article / podcast by Ismatu Gwendolyn, an artist living in Sierra Leone. discusses such things as the role of the artist in current society, money as a drug, being an artist as a member of a marginalized class, many more things..
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“Art-making: not as a leisure activity, solely or simply an expression of self, but as the most important medium that we have to communicate.”
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https://open.substack.com/pub/ismatu/p/the-role-of-the-artist-is-to-load?r=i2xn7&utm_medium=ios