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"...there are a class of workers who are artists, who take up the full promise of being workers.  They go into their own factories and they get to externalize what humanness means."  iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Lane Relyea, from Bad at Sports, episode number 39 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I recently listened to this interview again and was struck by his definition of the artist as 'worker', part of the citizenry, a full participant.  It made me think of Diego Rivera spending months at a time on scaffolding.  Admittedly this is a romantic impression, especially considering Rivera was one of the few artists who gave so much 'humanness' to the proletariat. But the truth is I am a hopeless romantic, especially when I consider why I choose to spend much of my life in this particular ‘class of worker'.