2016 shocked the world and we didn’t (really) react – why?
We’ve forgotten how to feel. Numb. Dumb. It’s like we’ve swallowed our tongues.
When things are going wrong it’s easy to react this way.
To roll over, shut the front door, reduce our emotions to taps and clicks.
Denying our humanity. Diminishing hardship to a shrug.
What we need is to re-sensitise.
Luke Norton, like the world – I haven’t been feeling himself lately.
He turned to art as a form of therapy. Blowing his brains out in all directions.
Making words and objects, that made him slowly feel like himself again.
He’s putting this work on display in an outsider folk art therapy show: I haven’t been feeling myself lately:
