BURNING [fr. brûlant]

The artist consumes news like food.
The artist has to burn the news.
This is the artistic metabolism of the Emergency Room.
If the artist doesn’t burn what he is fed with.
The artist get fat.
Fed Up.
The aware artist is moved by what he see: injustice, propaganda, torture, exploitation etc.
The aware artist is then burning to express and point out what he perceives.
The perception is this feeling, unmasking or debate.
The aware artist cannot wait to communicate.
If the artist wait, it is too late.
The artist is inspired by what he sees or knows or feels.
The artist is propulsed by a burning energy which make him produce art.
To communicate.
In the artists way of working this fire is inspiration.
This inspiration is not intoxicating.
It is enlightening.
It is now impossible for the artist to wait until he doesn’t feel anymore, or lying zapping with another beer in his hand in the sofa.
Like a messenger he must quickly alert the rest of society after having given his burning thought a form.
The form-giving process is urgent.
Hence emergency.
This burning artist can of course under no circumstances remain an apathetic.
This burning artist has the energy to criticise, to produce, and also to make public his thoughts and/or visions.
The burning artist has recovered the vital social strength.
The burning artist has recovered the artistic strength.
To be an artist is a profession of inspiration.