Today I watched JR (the 2011 TED winner) talk about how his art can change the world. He is a photographer who pastes pictures of individuals who's stories are untold or misrepresented. Often he travels to locations where extreme violence has taken place and takes pictures of people caught in the middle of it all. Then he pastes these faces or eyes on the sides of building or as roofs or walls. Some of the work is really beautiful, all of it is a bit inspiring.

What was more interesting than the works however, was the idea that art could communicate and represent ideas that can change the world. Now I can't help but wonder, what can I say, what do I want to say through my art? and more importantly, how can my art change the world?

That is a tall order, and a lifechanger of a question. Its also super ironic that I chose to ask it here (where I generally expect someone else to have the answers). But at a time when I am consistently asking what I want to be and what I want to present myself as, where my identity is a fluid as mercury, and when I am losing hope in humanity, it seams all the more important to remember what I do still believe and to remind myself of what I wish.