the story is obviously fictional. it is not something i will see in my life or maybe even that of my children. it maybe a concept just too challenging.i am working on the next installment and which way to take it.
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i am interested in identity, a number of my paintings and montages are trying to deal with this, in rather crude ways. i have also become rather curious about my old school reunion. this happens later this year but there is a an active internet chat going on in the run up. i guess for me this is where the future maybe connects with the past. in what way am i a product of my past as opposed to a product of my future.
more seriously should i be concerned that i do not appear in any of the pictures that are being posted, does this mean i did not exist or maybe i was of no interest to others ( when i thought i was really interesting) or that i have joined the wrong year group! I guess it would be easy to shout out in anger at the managers of Castlebeck for the failings that lead to the abuse of people in its Bristol Unit. The scenes there moved me to tears and I am a very seasoned insider, now an outsider. my question starts with how would i have acted if in that situation and your question should start from that premise. that its all our actions that lead to such abuse to occur, not obviously to distract from the perpetrators in this case, who i hope are imprisoned for their criminal acts. would it not also be interesting to bring corporate charges against the organization, the CQC and all the others who watched on. in fact maybe we should all suffer in some way and this is my point. some of you may have briefly registered that some time ago a mother and child killed themselves in Leicestershire because of prolonged abuse from people in that community, the children of parents, like me and maybe you. the mistreatment of these individuals at Castlebeck started in the values that drive are communities.
this crisis ask questions of all of us, it seeks to illuminate the values that reside in todays world. it asks in what way do we want to see our most vulnerable treated, what does it mean for our futures going forward. Neuberger sums it us rather succinctly in 'the moral state we're in' ''kindness is not what we value most, nor does it drive the system'' (p60) |
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