Katy Batsel is a dreamer wielding needle and thread to imagine a better world for herself and her queer community. As a member of the like-minded Secret Love Collective, she encourages the disenfranchised to step out of their world, try on identities and find new ways to live life. But her fiber works on their own can still be big and funny, cheeky, heavy with subtle memories and loud with slogans, ready for a parade, and evidence of a massive imagination.
What fires Batsel’s message? The artist tells all as she answers the Colorado Creatives questionnaire.
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Belief vs. acceptance
Published: 4/9/2021 10:38:52 AM
I am fond of quoting Ursula Le Guin. In her last book, “No Time to Spare,” she clarifies the difference between belief and acceptance.
Asked if she believed in evolution, she would answer “no.” Most readers would register a moment of “what?!” before reading on.
“I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. I accept it,” she writes. “It isn’t a matter of faith, but of science.” Le Guin says that belief “has its proper and powerful existence in the domains of magic, religions, fear and hope.”
She then states that the whole undertaking of science is to deal, as well as it can, “with reality. The reality of actual things and events in time is subject to doubt, to hypothesis, to proof and disproof, to acceptance and rejection not to belief or disbelief.”
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