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" This laying down of your life to do a difficult thing, in an act which has got integrity - is culture. And that's what the invitation always is: to do a brave thing. From the front of your property to the back, and from the start of your life to the end. To make a grand gesture. A simple, uncomplicated, grand gesture. That's culture. And the opposite of it is slavery and debt. And there's this great tilt that needs to happen. It starts on the very small scale, with this little tiny patch of land. My life. My family. That's how conquest happens. " - James Gillick, "The Grand Gesture: Reviving Sacred Art, Craft, and Culture" (~01:23:26), The New Humanum. James Gillick is an English figurative artist. Link to the full film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/96J2RIQLvC4?

" As far as I can tell, there’s an incredibly broad inclination in human beings to enslave each other. From the great scale into the small scale, with debt, usury, law... The other side of the coin is what we'd call culture, which is actually the proper use of coin within society: spending it on beautiful objects. " - Paraphrased from James Gillick, "The Grand Gesture: Reviving Sacred Art, Craft, and Culture" (~00:23:10), The New Humanum. James Gillick is an English figurative artist. Link to the full film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/96J2RIQLvC4?