Photo Essay: Buying to Belong
Buying to Belong: Art as Action
By Shannon Black
Challenging:
My purchased power,
Fuzzy feeling fetching,
Doing my part-a-part
From giving up my buying to belong,
As others pay the price for my stuffing.
Questioning:
On whose backs is Privilege bord(red)?
On whose backs is Freedom broke(red)?:
Acting:
Using art to taking back public space,
To ask questions,
To start a conversation,
To shake awake the ease of
Citizenshopping, Buyingbelonging,
Mystufflovesme, Nationsonging.
To start speaking, to start listening,
To start ACTING.
To stop buying, to stop trying…
To Belong.
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