Coming together

So a couple of days ago I write in my post about the art institute having a showing that anyone can get in. All you've got to do is stand in line for a few hours to submit your work. I quoted Chris Atkins, coordinator of the Minneapolis Institute of Art Program. He said...about all that art hanging in floor-to-ceiling salon style: “If you can imagine seeing a crowd and seeing every voice in the crowd – it’s kind of like that."

Today I was thinking about a recent post to my other blog, http://pubjournal.blogspot.com about seeing a talk given by Marv Davidov, a nonviolent revolutionary who has been active for about 50 years. He said something along the line of how a movement has to have not just inspired people, but inspired music and art.

I don't know what makes all of that come together the way it did in the 60's. There's no lack of good new music or good new art or inspired people. But I do suspect that it is the "coming together" that makes things happen, makes the crowd become one where you hear every voice.

It's a strange thing, isn't it?