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BUY ART | 2009 CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS

May, 2009

Wing Commander & Squadron Leader

Why Buy

If you don’t create demand, supply will die.

Written for the 2009 BUY ART campaign, “Why Buy” strips art patronage down to its practical exchange: artists create, consumers make continued creation possible. Playful, pointed and deliberately uncomfortable, the poem turns buying art from a luxury decision into an act that sustains artists and cultural production.

Creation has need of a consumer—to build a void and to fill a stomach.

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