On the practical day-to-day level of working, the vocabulary of art leads us into […] false certainties, foolish mastery, and into repetition, which is surely a sin against the future. There is no need to worry about losing one’s base or ‘identity’ […] when situated within a new set of objects and social environment. The task is to focus on that moment and to work (or, I might say, ‘to act’). If one rings too well-planned a strategy and ‘experience’ to the task, one remains in some personal past, and begins to make lies.

The Native American (Cherokee) artist, essayist and poet has proposed substituting the noun ‘art’ with the verbs ‘work’ and ‘act’. Introduction to Sami Art and Aesthetics, Aarhus University Press, 2017.