Patricia Sahertian

What More Could She Want?

Collage on paper

5” x 7” 2018

What starts out as a childhood vision soon becomes corrupted into a manifesto of ludicrousness, turning a sense of what could have been into the likelihood of a new world order.

Simone Loehndorf

What More Could She Want?

Collage on paper

5” x 7” 2018

My Utopia is not a perfect world where nothing ever happens. But it is a democratic world led by wise women and men. A world of free movement where we take care of planet Earth and understand that it belongs to everyone. It is a world of tolerance, understanding, and good intentions. A place where there's food for everyone, where children feel safe and happy and where education for everyone is a given.

Shari Bombeck

What More Could She Want?

Collage on paper

5” x 7” 2018

Until I find myself absent of all sorrow and desire, I find other utopic-like interests: communing with friends, enjoying and caretaking family (some of them), reading, dancing, listening to music, traveling, writing, gardening, making art and etc. This piece is is but a sliver of my utopian realization.

Rebecca Paradies

What More Could She Want?

Collage on paper

5” x 7” 2018

As a fellow artist wrote, utopia means “no place.” Utopia and humanity cannot coexist, because utopia is perfect, and humanity is not. Humans change their world in an attempt to make the world better in their own eyes. Utopia can never be changed for the better, because it is already perfect. Humans create, but there can be no creation in utopia, because it is already what it must be. Humans want freedom. There can be no freedom in utopia, because freedom implies change. Humans disagree. In utopia than can be no disagreement, because disagreement implies more than one way to be right, but in utopia there is only one way.

Rebecca Paradies 

Wider View

Collage on paper

7” x 7” 2018

Wider View

Collage on paper

7” x 7” 2018

After much thought about this concept of perfect utopia , I continued to come back to openness and creativity. Maintaining a wider view and the use of creative expression for survival and unity.

Kelly Hayes