The Prompt
Welcome to Prompt 26! We are pondering the heroic within the human experience.
Immersed in a world of AI, it takes a brave soul to pause and honestly ask, "Am I losing myself to ChatGPT?" In our polished world we are cornered at every turn to optimize more, to actually think less. Here at the crossroads, we must free ourselves from artificial control. Being human today increasingly requires an act of will.
Sculptor Sabin Howard willed his way for nearly a decade to create America's National WWI Memorial: a 25-ton, 60-foot long bronze sculpture depicting A Soldier's Journey"This is a symbol of who we are. This sculpture to me was a way to make it apparent that humanity needs to be thought of as something that is sacred."
Sabin hones his craft through an authentic human lens, choosing not to outsource his creativity. "The 38 figures in the National Memorial are all about the heroic nature of humanity and reaching our potential as human beings. None of them are victims. They are all choosing to be the best they can be. And in some way, every one of those figures is a statement of who I am and who I want to be.”
Digging into our capacity for generosity of life, how can we as artists resist the artificial, and mine the heroic, where art has to come from the human experience, and create?
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