> Love and Peace or Else: Droog Rant

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Droog Rant

According to Droog's statement, that i was required to read, they want to make solutions. How am i supposed to make solutions to global problems with jewelry? I'll happily make peices that react to global problems, but i just don't see how i can possibly help people with jewelry-at least the jewelry i like to make. I think what i'm trying to say is perfectly summed up by Maya Angelou's famous poem:

The caged bird sings not because it has an answer,
But because it has a song.

I can sing a song about the boy that comes to the lighthouse to escape from his life of poverty, but i can't imagine a way out for him. I can sing a song about a box of abandoned kittens, but i can't convince their former owners to take them back. I can sing a song about a bruised child hiding from his daddy (who always comes home smelling of booze) but i can't get him and his mom out of there. Not with Jewelry, at least.

How do you make a pendant that saves the world?

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