Today and tomorrow / by Charis Elliott

Today and tomorrow there is no separation from self and work from the professional and private life for the purpose of professionalization and profit. However, theres another reality waiting. If we remain forever against professionalization and remain instead in the space of the amateur, constantly learning, creating and growing, we can create new culture. We are not trapped in a reality of what we produce being only worth the profit we receive resulting in our self worth in fact coming from earned $. We have the opportunity to reject this completely, change what is produced by being who we are and for being to remain the purpose. It's in this space we can undermine professionalization, a data driven world with unnecessary layers of profit and bureaucracies stealing our time, labor and leisure. Let's take it back. I am my work and my work is me and it's not for the doomed dead colonial patriarchal professionalization of intellect, image or art. I create with purpose of experiment and attempt of building new realities, and small moments that hold the possibilities to lead to new perspectives within and outside of myself.#bestof2017 is actually #peopleonlywanttoseepeopleinposts