Featured in ASHLEY VILLARREAL's article in SF Station
Ashley Villarreal, a writer for Sf Station asked me what my resolutions for 2017 were. In the article, 10 SF Bay Area Artists Share New Year's Resolutions for 2017 on Dec.27, 2016 I responded with the following:
Colleen Flaherty, Visual Artist “I do not believe in resolutions. Change must be a daily routine, like calisthenics. 2016 has been a tragic year: a litany of police killings of unarmed Africa Americans, skyrocketing income inequality in San Francisco, homeless encampments next to $4500 “live and work” spaces, the dismantling of the common good, brutal social cleansing, rampant gentrification, the Ghost Ship fire. The Bay Area is increasingly lethal for artists and unaffordable for anybody who does not work for Apple, Google, or Facebook. Trump’s victory added insult to injury. I agree with British filmmaker Adam Curtis that “radical art” is completely useless if self-expression is nothing more than individualism. Art must merge with activism for real change to happen.”