Another Fake Student
Hello, darlings. My name is Mina Loy. I’m an artist, poet, playwright, fiction writer, inventor, and entrepreneur who associated with Futurism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism between 1903-1950.
After growing up in a prudish Victorian household in London, I was sent off to art school in Germany. I studied art in Paris, married too young, and found myself in Italy, where I encountered Futurism.
What I want to tell you is this:
TODAY is the crisis in consciousness.
CONSCIOUSNESS cannot spontaneously accept or reject new forms, as offered by creative genius; it is the new form, for however great a period of time it may remain a mere irritant—that molds consciousness to the necessary amplitude for holding it.
CONSCIOUSNESS has no climax.
Works Cited
Mina Loy, “Aphorisms on Futurism” from The Last Lunar Baedeker, published by Jargon Press. Copyright © 1982 by Mina Loy.
