Manifesto
In
today’s rapidly changing modern landscape, Vane is inspired
by the struggle faced by the various cultures and subcultures
that have emerged from the metropolitan epicenters of the world.
Vane is a reflection of the cultural, political, and artistic
chaos that has resulted.
Conflict, however, can be both literal and figurative. For young
people across the globe, civil and military war is a harsh reality
of daily living, while an ideological and psychological war is
being waged on the youth in others. Vane is the Art of War, and
much like Sun Tzu’s legendary treatise, Vane does not support
violence or conflict so much as it reflects the strategy and leadership
required to succeed in a reality plagued by conflict. But, Vane
is also the beauty and art that arises from struggle.
Thus there are four essential tenets by which Vane is guided;
the Bomb, the Sword, the Gat, and the Pen, the four main instruments
of historic and modern warfare.
The Bomb is an explosion, an idea or movement
so great that it cannot be ignored—it is oftentimes messy
and unrefined, but it affects a large number of people.
The Sword is a swift and decisive blow, a singular
belief or concept that only an elite few will be able to grasp–although
it may seem small in scale, when wielded by the right people it
cannot be stopped.
The Gat is a distant yet instant and accurate
strike, a feeling or impression that is capable of traveling directly
from one person to another—people are immediately inspired
to thought or action.
The Pen, the most important of all four, is an
understanding of difference and a skill of diplomacy—it
is the guiding ideology by which global youth culture is united,
transcending borders with a sublime understanding of compromise
and crucial to our future.
As youth culture moves forward, in today’s hyper-mediated
society, we can either become image obsessed and vain—conceited,
arrogant, and devoid of substance. Or, we can become Vane, like
the arrow pointing the way on a compass, the guiding blade of
a hurling missile, or an indicator of where the wind will take
us tomorrow. |