Creative freedom in 2019!
If you can't read this, turn it anti-clockwise.
It says, of course
Creative freedom in 1990
Thirty years ago, on my New Year's card of 1989/90, my long splayed brush was not just painting graffiti on a wall - it was my own simple way to slash through the wall of political and cultural prejudice, to freely calligraph a message of optimism, a call for creative thinking in whatever language you speak, write, sing, play or paint; a call to claim freedom from a disastrous political system.
In November 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and we were all carried away with excitement about the consequences. That first celebration of German unity in Berlin saw Rostropovich playing the Bach Cello Suites at the Wall and Leonard Bernstein at the Konzerthaus Berlin conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the final Ode to Joy, changing the words from Freude! (joy) to Freiheit! (freedom). Here he is in action in 1989:
But despite our hopes and tears of joy,
thirty years later, has very much changed?
Let us not despair.
These words must still be writ large on walls everywhere.
Think creatively!
Think out of the box! Through the wall!
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An edited version of my blog of 2015
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