Day 13 - kathrin winkler

I am submitting an older artwork regarding the Season of Nonviolence. It is called “Stilts over Bombs...Living in our World.” It was inspired by a clarinet player at the Halifax Seaport Market, who was able to bring the listeners to the joy of sound in the present moment with such grace and abandonment. It was a reminder that all of us live in a proximity to violence and peace simultaneously. We are experiencing a heightened awareness of suffering in war zones and their extensions. So we are in proximity to the violence that calls us in relationship to it and to act. This takes many forms - the pressing need for clean water, for protecting Old Growth Forests and to resist facism etc. Yet we are in proximity to beauty and creation as well. We live our daily lives within the potential for destruction and actual destruction above and below.
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kathrin winkler, Halifax, Nova Scotia