| Philyra: | What's this have to do with coral reefs? |
| Andrei: | Nothing. Does art require a social agenda? |
| Philyra: | In one sense, yes. It may not seem obvious, but anything concerned with values is inherently political. Every choice we make has political reverberations. |
| Ellesha: | I disagree. The pixels on this screen have no political message. By looking at them, we unload our baggage & build up interpretations. It's all simply the work of our minds - not the art itself. |
| Philyra: | That would suggest art is meaningless. |
| Ellesha: | It is. The only 'meaning' which exists is in the mind of each viewer. |
| Philyra: | That sort of thinking leads to passivity. It is utterly spineless. That, in fact, is precisely the way that ruling elites would like us to think. |
| Andrei: | Anyway [gerp]. Blue iz ah pretty color . . . |
