Undaunted........................

      If artists have the capacity to make work that defies time, it is because instead of trying to force-fit a predetermined idea of the future, they have learned to live productively with ambiguity, to see it as a rich source of discovery and exploration.  Instead of trying to reduce complexity, they mine it, undaunted by contradictions and paradoxes. . . . In this, artists have much to teach us about how we ourselves could address the future with imagination and independence.  In addition to thinking about what to do, the artist's method suggest that we should think about how to be.

-Margaret Heffernan,  Uncharted:  How To Navigate The Future