I Will Work For (Series)

Collective Good #1-#30

Art Endeavor Designed to Promote and Grow the Collective Good.

The series, Collective Good, is a demonstration born out of the COVID19 pandemic. On March 12, realizing the pandemic proved the citizens of the world were a collective power which could implement sweeping positive change in a day. To highlight the momentousness of this feat, J. Balser Inc. pledged to thank those working and sacrificing the most during the pandemic, nurses and other essential workers risking their personal health.

Hope Breeds Too.

By using my talents, I envisioned a creative body of work that mirrored the pandemic phenomena. To highlight strength in numbers, personal sacrifice for community benefit, and create a contagious behavioral component where by an act of kindness begets another act of kindness and so on, breeding an exponential tidal wave of hope for the future coursing through the population to combat the corona virus.

My commitment to continue to work through the pandemic, work for others I don’t know, strangers, also, mimics the type of selfless acts the public health providers were doing. The importance isn’t each work, but in their existence. Through their titles #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 each recipient is one among the collective good. They—the people, not the art—are the embodiment of beauty which kindled a new hope inside of me.

Failures Impact Unjustly

No work. No school. Isolated at home hiding from the Coronavirus while medical professionals risk their lives. Normally, putting you life in jepordy is NOT a requirement in the healthcare industry. Two months of warning and both hospitals and government failed to provide protective gear. So, today, caring for coved-19 patients is an unprecedented act of sheer selflessness. Medical care has entered a new paradigm with all new considerations.

From Personal Protection to Collective Preservation

It is the transition from personal protection to collective preservation that struck me. Never has man been tested to this degree, at this scale, with so few able to fight the fight, and the other billion plus, asked to stay at home AND watch. Out of the office, out of school, out of our cars. No bars. No manicures. No dirty chia lattes! No boats to drive away the manettees. Who would have thought people could change their lifestyle in a day, across the world! But we did.

Worldwide Change in a Day

Even more interesting, within the 2 or 3 or 4 billion asked to do so little, there are those who bewail the “hardship.” The unsavory who lick all the packaging at the store, who have packed parties in defiance, the others who continue to travel as if all Americans were “out of the office” for a national holiday instead of an international pandemic. In spite, no! due to, these very different reactions, I realized what a gift this pandemic has given the world. Proof: the collective good far out weighs.

Evidence Humans Suck Less

It is sweeping evidence of human adaption. It’s more than subduing a virus; it’s hope for the future. It’s a template for environmental responsibility. No one can say, “people will never stop driving their cars” because they will, if life is at stake. “Big business runs everything and everyone.” It doesn’t. March 2020, people choose people. Governors, Mayors, employers, ministers, principles, neighbors, friends, parents, teenagers, and children of parents across the globe are choosing one another.

So, while we might feel powerless as individuals, together the collective good will make the changes necessary. Honestly, I had my doubts. I’m sure you did to, but now…there isn’t any cause to wonder. It was this epiphany that connected my personal gear, my talents, my ability to create a meaningful message, and the methods to deploy it.

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