"The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or
end...Here is the Amen beyond the prayer," Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his
dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and
resistance while planting a garden between an old lighthouse and a new nuclear
plant on a barren shingled shore. Jarman is one of the artists whom Olivia Laing
profiles and celebrates in Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (public library)
-- her superb collection of meditations on art, activism, and our search for
meaning, drawing on the lives of artists whose vision has changed the way we see
the world, ourselves, and others."
Maria Popova shares more.
