Art and Design - Momus

When the world is a mess and children are strapped to the torture machines

And dictators clamp down, sending their troops to the centre of things

That’s when I turn to art and design, the only two things I can truly call mine

When they kill journalists for just doing their job and just telling the truth

And when it’s suddenly fine for the streets to resound with racist abuse

That’s when I turn to art and design, to beautiful things from beautiful minds

And artists who look see visions of alternate universes

And designers have put all this beauty into the things around us

And that’s why I turn to art and design, political things that aren’t yet a

crime

The most beautiful flowers spring, so they say, from the throats of dead kings

And the beautiful powers come when people themselves control the machine

That’s why I turn to art and design, beautiful things that change minds