This simple diagram shows the isolation experienced outside urban centres, where often the demographic is sparse, public transport is vague and services are lacking. The relative loneliness in comparison to city living is often desirable in terms of ‘pace of life’ and ‘escape to nature’ but this diagram also proposes that the audience for art will be much less, thus affecting less people. I propose this is fine. Rural art should address the vernacular and offer interpretation to the immediate locality. It should be ‘of a place’ - ‘for a place’ (quote by the famous peaceful muralists in Derry- The Bogside Artists).
-Pól
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