3D black stone and gold thorn sculpture
36"x48"
Included in the Engaged Learning Exhibition on Civility in the Stewart Library, January 2018.
Art Methods in Teaching 3510
December 2017
Is our global family relying far too much on hostility vs.
civility? We hurl words at each other
like catapulted boulders, and expect people to be grateful for the beating.
By removing civility from daily discourse, we lose the
opportunity for a mutual foundation. We
do disservice to expanding our understanding of topics, peoples, and cultures
when we close ourselves off from opinions of others.
We do not have to research intensely to see that civil
discourse is a commodity that is in high demand. It does not require us to change our
opinions… it does not involve thorny words meant to obtain our “pound of
flesh”.
The Dalai Lama expressed that, “When you talk, you are only
repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something
new.”
