The purpose of art is to introduce thoughts and feelings
that were not previously present. Poetry is art.
Photography is art. Needlework and Sculpting
and Painting and Advertising are art.

“All art is propaganda.
It is universally and inescapably propaganda;
sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately,
propaganda.”

– Upton Sinclair,
in an interview with
Rene Fulop-Miller, March 24, 1923

Make no mistake. Sinclair was right.
If you read Aunt Jennifer's Tigers on the previous page,
you no doubt felt Jennifer to be trapped in an abusive marriage,
filling her days with needlework of tigers, proud and free.

“The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.”

I accelerated this mental image by placing
the strangely tigerish face of a woman
created in needlework, severely beaten,
directly above the poem.

The poem's author, Adrienne Rich,
was a leading feminist during the early part of that movement.

I'm thinking that Adrienne was not happily married.

Note to Adrienne Rich: Your uncle is not all men.

What I did on the previous page is the kind of thing teach study in-depth
during our most rarely-taught class, Advanced Thought Particles.
Our 2010 session will be March 16-17.
Rooms are still available in Engelbrecht House,
Wizard Academy's student mansion.

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