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survey found that 95 percent of artists
have lost income because of COVID-19.
Furthermore this survey highlights that
62 percent of artists have become fully
unemployed. This corroborates the harsh
financial reality faced by artists in the current
crisis.
Chances are, like many of us around the world,
you are struggling to keep a balance between
work and the rest of your life.
And if you have children, maintaining balance
becomes even harder.
How else to describe these past few weeks other
than surreal? Seemingly overnight, the entire
fabric of daily life has been turned upside down.
And yet, between trying to order groceries online
and refreshing the newspaper homepage, it’s
important that we keep ourselves optimistic,
energized, and entertained (and, perhaps, a little
distracted).
For help, we decided at awesome art prizes to
turn to artists to help and support as much as we
can during this crisis.
Scientists are constantly getting better at
knowing when the next hurricane, landslide,
or flood will happen. However, science
communication about these disasters lags. As
Leonardo da Vinci described, art has a unique
power to communicate this type of knowledge to
people everywhere.
Natural events and disasters of the past have
influenced some of the most iconic artists of our
time. From Turner’s sunsets to Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein – both were composed in the
shadow of the greatest volcanic eruption of our
age, Mount Tambora in 1815. The Great Wave
off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Hokusai (c.1829–33) has been interpreted as a warning
about tsunami risk. In an era of increasing
natural hazards and climate change, art can also
communicate the future risks we face.
Art inspires people to think about disaster risk
and resilience in ways that science, data, and
numbers cannot. This is why we call for all
artists to bend to circumstances and let the
storm pass away. Our strength and resiliency
will help us win again. Art has the potential
for building empathy for communities who are
facing increased risk from hazards and climate
change. Art provokes emotions that convey
multiple feelings and often a sense of urgency
for preventing and preparing for disasters.
We have seen art serve as a convener, a
conversation starter, and a source of hope and
motivation for people from all over the world.
The artist resilience seeks to bring together
those who know, those who do, and those who
create to inspire new ways of thinking about
disasters. Human history teaches us that
whatever the disasters they all went over.
This catalog is produced and edited to support
you. It’s a great help to your communication. It
is distributed free of charge to thousands of
interior designers and galleries. You can send
it to all your contacts by mailing the catalog’s
URL. For those who are featured, you can send
the catalog directly open to the page where you
are published. To do this, open the catalog on
the page where you are published, copy the URL
of this page and send it free to whomever you
want.
Stay safe and secure along with your loved ones.
We stand by your side.
We love you.THE EXISTENS
CHARLES JAKOBSEN
Editor