Visa Romsi
1982, Keminmaa
time and space
Power is something that emanates from us human —being, human physical being, spirit— and power is about that spirit and about the being and our relationship to the planet, to the earth, to the universe. That’s where our real power connections are. We live in a time where we have been indoctrinated to believe that authority is power. So when we look externally and we see these ones that would feed off us and control us, they have defined power from the material perception, perception of the human, not of the being. So we look at economic systems as being power, but in reality an economic system is basically a system of authority. And we look at military systems as being power, but in reality that’s another system of aut- hority - or religious systems - but these are systems of authority. We have been programmed into believing that these things are power, and because we have really no influence in these things - no real accessibility to these things.. and if we believe they have the power then it doesn’t say much for ourselves. So power is really about our relationship to life.Â
- John Trudell