The Role of the Artist in Times of Crisis with Ben Okri
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The Dangers of the Absence
Ben Oakree: In the novel, you deal with this through the preferred art of the culture that you describe through sculptures. When a sculpture is removed, its absence figures almost more prominently than its presence and it continues to haunt the minds of the members of the village. So we see this playing out in our culture. The real danger of the absence is that each day that we refuse to face these truths, these things, these injustices, we are contributing to them.
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