Four Blackboards

German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys presented a performance/installation at the Tate Gallery in 1972 using four blackboards. His diagrams drawn in chalk set forth profound questions pertaining to art, human life, and social connections that are critical but unseen. He wrote this sentence on one of the boards:

 ‘He who in 1972 can live carefree and sleep peacefully despite knowing that two thirds of humanity are hungry or dying of starvation while a large proportion of the well-fed third must take slimming cures in order to stay alive should ask himself what kind of man one is and whether, moreover, he is a man at all.’

I often think of Joseph Beuys as an artist who has inspired my Supply Chain Portraits. But the equation remains unsolved: how does one make art that is both beautiful and a blessing to the poor of the world?