"Be thou bold, and be thou brave, in thy pursuit of love." --From Be Thou, old Limbic City folk song.
Dear Everyone,
Hello and welcome. My name is Jeremy Michael Jaeger, and this is an introduction to my Big Idea, a place called Limbic City.
Limbic City is many things, it contains multitudes. It is both an imaginary city in a fictional realm, and also a place that exists in the real world; a community think-tank, and a new body politic. A conceptual model, an ongoing single work of art, and a broad experiment in love and justice.
And it's an invitation. After all, we're talking about a city, and a city is a place that is built by a great number of different human bodies, an idea that is formed by the collective desire and will and dreams of a great number of different, individual human minds. So Limbic City is an invitation, a process of creation and discovery into which I'm inviting you, and asking for your participation.
We have become a people who live in separate boxes, in separate silos and bubble-domes and echo chambers. We attach ourselves to ideologies, to -isms, out of which we build walls, and from behind those walls we fire bullets and lob hate-filled grenades at all those other humans who do not see that our way is the right way and the only way.
And I am sick and tired of it; of watching frightened, lost humans demonize, and lie to, and seek to destroy each other. Sick and tired of seeing the headlines and feeling my body fill up with great rage and deep sadness. Sick and tired of watching the broken, mangled performance of our civic life, and of seeing--and feeling--all the stress and pain and suffering that so many of us are living with as a result.
And I feel this especially so, because it so frequently clouds over, and makes us forget, this basic fact: the world is amazing. This earth-place we call home is full to the brim of abundant, extraordinary beauty. The plants and the animals, the sky and the sea, and all these incredibly sophisticated structures we the race of human beings have created; structures physical, structures social, structures of both tradition and exploration, that are all built to try and help us understand what this fundamentally gorgeous gift called life might really mean.
So Limbic City, and the invitation it comprises, is my response. A place that is rooted in the soil of our most basic values, and that grows and forms itself from the belief that within every human being, at the inmost core of each and every one of us, is the desire to use our gifts to make the world a better place, and to love and be loved.
Limbic City is an experiment, with a hypothesis based on a deep, intense, abiding love for the truth. What I'm doing is striving to be good, to each and every day be the best possible human I can be. And what I'm asking from you is nothing more or less than to do the same.
Love,
Jeremy M. Jaeger
Dear Everyone,
Hello and welcome. My name is Jeremy Michael Jaeger, and this is an introduction to my Big Idea, a place called Limbic City.
Limbic City is many things, it contains multitudes. It is both an imaginary city in a fictional realm, and also a place that exists in the real world; a community think-tank, and a new body politic. A conceptual model, an ongoing single work of art, and a broad experiment in love and justice.
And it's an invitation. After all, we're talking about a city, and a city is a place that is built by a great number of different human bodies, an idea that is formed by the collective desire and will and dreams of a great number of different, individual human minds. So Limbic City is an invitation, a process of creation and discovery into which I'm inviting you, and asking for your participation.
We have become a people who live in separate boxes, in separate silos and bubble-domes and echo chambers. We attach ourselves to ideologies, to -isms, out of which we build walls, and from behind those walls we fire bullets and lob hate-filled grenades at all those other humans who do not see that our way is the right way and the only way.
And I am sick and tired of it; of watching frightened, lost humans demonize, and lie to, and seek to destroy each other. Sick and tired of seeing the headlines and feeling my body fill up with great rage and deep sadness. Sick and tired of watching the broken, mangled performance of our civic life, and of seeing--and feeling--all the stress and pain and suffering that so many of us are living with as a result.
And I feel this especially so, because it so frequently clouds over, and makes us forget, this basic fact: the world is amazing. This earth-place we call home is full to the brim of abundant, extraordinary beauty. The plants and the animals, the sky and the sea, and all these incredibly sophisticated structures we the race of human beings have created; structures physical, structures social, structures of both tradition and exploration, that are all built to try and help us understand what this fundamentally gorgeous gift called life might really mean.
So Limbic City, and the invitation it comprises, is my response. A place that is rooted in the soil of our most basic values, and that grows and forms itself from the belief that within every human being, at the inmost core of each and every one of us, is the desire to use our gifts to make the world a better place, and to love and be loved.
Limbic City is an experiment, with a hypothesis based on a deep, intense, abiding love for the truth. What I'm doing is striving to be good, to each and every day be the best possible human I can be. And what I'm asking from you is nothing more or less than to do the same.
Love,
Jeremy M. Jaeger
Artist-Statement
