RafaelFajardo

I don’t think you can last by meeting the
contemporary public taste, the taste from the last
quarterly report. I don’t think you can last by following
demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don’t
know many works of art that last that are condescending.
I don’t know many works of art that last that are
deliberately stupid. You may be a geek, you may have geek
written all over you; you should aim to be one geek
they’ll never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t
hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of
pet. To hell with them; they put you here. You should
fully realize what society has made of you and take a
terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get
dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird
and don’t do it halfway, put every ounce of horsepower you
have behind it. Have the artistic *courage* to recognize
your own significance in culture!