PLEASED WITH A FEATHER

For the interesting point about a feather is really this, that it grew. It was not made in a moment, like a bullet poured red-hot into a mold: its little airy plumes, branched like a fern into tiny waving filaments, were developed by slow steps, piece after piece, and spikelet after spikelet. And what is true of this particular bit of down which I hold in my fingers, trembling like gossamer at every breath and every pulse, is also true of plumage as a whole in the history of animal evolution. 
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, 1879

The location of art should be within society, and art may consist of actions rather than objects.

not quite what she said, but what i believe. anyway, 'tis a good read. and great, meaning-ful work, i think.
Claudia Bernal - Performance as an act of survival