Mission Statement
By Paul Allan Frederick
Panel One:
We Collaborators, we few, precious fiends of art, in whose
minds there are pieces of wonder, and our passing whispers wisp over the heads
of those who so unfortunately tried to comprehend, but instead they found their
own failures as humans, recognizing that to live is to create! And to Create is to live! We few brother and sister artists, we
collaborators, we champions fo the mind; it is our battle to fight. To rise above the common man, in his years of
attempt to squash and squelch our abilities.
We took their math classes and their English classes, we took their
contempt of us; those who call themselves teachers, we took their disdain, but
now, oh now it is our time.
Panel Two:
It is time of those who can bring oru country out of its deep
depression. What those unthinking
Philistines with their polititians and their lawyers and money brokers, what
damage did they do and leave us in the world of today, they have paid in
full. Their minds seared with greed,
unable to create—UNABLE (with one hand pointing up!) AH! Listen, quietly now, all b e quiet. Listen!
That sound is the sound of brilliance waiting to happen. That sound is open time and space, waiting
for our skills, talents, our ability! …us mothers and fathers of art. IT AWAITS
US! Now hush, hush, hush.
It is our minds brewing what which is what this world
needs! It is brewing what those who lust
for power and money can’t have—but if anybody has any extra, I’ll be glad to
take it off you (said light heartedly to break the tension). We brew, we collaborate, we feast, not just
on salad, but on creativity! We
cannibals of each other’s talent! We
feast on the air, here in this studio, this school. We fatten our minds as we spindle our talent
with the learning of skills.
Panel Three:
Take heed my fellow Collaborators!! Take heed indeed! Ours, our talent, our skills, our craft, can
be stolen to hold the masses at bay. Our
craft can be used to dumb down the sheep of this world. Yes, to dumb them down
to not think, but simply obey. Even now
we see so many of our elk use media like TV.
Bad TV; that we watch day after day.
And bad cartoons for our children, day after day. These devices are used to keep us at bay and
to not know what life has to offer. They are used to keep the masses sluggish and
cold. It is to keep us filed with a
witches brew of apathy whose magic steals away the value of human life. We artists, we collaborators, we leaders if
the mind…it is our time to collaborate…it is our time to emulate and speculate
suspicion!
Panel Four:
We tortured few, we brave few, we band of brothers and
sisters, side by side to fight to the last person to have the message of art be
created, to be seen, to push open minds and bring these Phillistines to
sophistication. We fight to guide, to
Sheppard the simple into a less narrow rail or a more confined road that leads
Hannibal to victory. We have planted
see! We have written laws. But we are the makers of art! My fellow Collaborators, it is art that will
and has always, brought enlightenment to mankind!
Panel Five:
It is our calling to embrace, no embark on a journey. We are
the ones that keep together the Avarious kingdoms and nations. For ten thousand years we have told poems,
made dances, beat drums, and drew on cave walls, to tell each other what our
past held. We have always had a special
calling. Mankind, both the “She’s” and the “He’s” all have gained in their
dimwitted low brow lives freedom form illiteracy and freedom from
ignorance. Finally my fellow
Collaborators let nothing block your road, be brace, be awesome, and be
magnificent!
