Art Wants // Megan Garrett-Jones
Art Wants by Megan Garrett-Jones (Video, Edit and Poem by the Artist)
What Art Wants- Megan Garrett-Jones
Art wants
Unhurried inhabitance
Window daydreams & weight shifting creaks
Voice wants
Time to stop
And to be coddled
Art wants to bedazzle
Art needs a party date
Voice wants to sing together
& needs kindred spirits
Art wants hairy obsessions
From the folds of history
But I only want mysterious meetings.
I need equal tomorrows.
Art wants you to gasp
Needs your gentleness
My voice wants to speak the names of flowers
To honour my grandmother’s memory.
She uses music to soothe & needs to awaken
I wander, but I need to choose a direction.
She guides and needs to reveal, to open portals
We follow & play
Arts shows off
& voice wants to authenticate
Art needs to educate
Voice joins a debate
Art alarms
Voice needs to learn
To speak up, in solidarity
Art plays tootsies & needs to outrage
Art wants to tickle & argue on stage
It wants to scream vive la revolucion
It needs me to listen to rectify my opinions.
I want to understand and feel the injustice
There’s an art that wants to unsettle
It needs to make space for different textures
I want to scrunch in my fingers
I need to feel to transform
Written in response to a prompt from a Magical Women workshop with thanks to Elinor Rowlands