Is there any emotion more fundamentally human than hope?
On this eve of a new year, I want to think more about the ways we have advanced and grown in our humanity, than our competitive, destructive violence. There has actually been good news this year, and there are ways in which each of us can help our sisters and brothers, as well as the planet. Let's concentrate on those, and on our capacity to keep looking forward in spite of everything.
Happy New Year to you all, and perhaps, demain sera différent.*
*I think the poster, with its incomplete text, is talking about what the world will be like without fossil fuels, but the title is striking nevertheless.
I think the poster is more striking for its redaction. We read from left to right, and someone or something has aborted the sentence and hope and tomorrow. The uncertainly increases along the mottled, gray pole and against fenced-off, empty stands facing shrouded trees, themselves acknowledged (and aborted) back in the lower portion of the blood-red poster. So hope must fight.
Posted by: Peter | January 01, 2016 at 03:16 PM
Happy New Year to you and yours.
Posted by: Tom | January 02, 2016 at 10:36 AM
Peter, thank you for your "reading" of the image - I really appreciate what you saw here.
Tom, the same to you and Lucy!
Posted by: Beth | January 02, 2016 at 11:33 AM