Timothy J Petty is a poet, free form dancer, and garden artist focusing on edible landscaping. He is currently based in the Bay area, although a Colorado transplant. He is primarily a peer- taught, having found vibrant inspiration around him most of his life. Tim desires to connect people through common goals. He seeks to dissolve the dishonest systems in society. Tim aims to remind everyone of the Artist inside.

The Present Will of Tim Petty: A Proclamation of Purpose, Profession of Beliefs, Morals Clause, Mission statement, Manifesto

Morals clause…I am not sure what it is to be moral, kinda relative I think based on who’s talking…

Clause is legal term and I mistrust that language,

Manifesto; nah, it’s no feast nor fest, not another word with ‘man’ in it.

My mission is our mission.

A will is what we leave behind and this is what I would leave:

I believe in practicing right speech, though I am still stumbling over the words

I believe in equality, though I still see division in the world

I believe in the innate goodness of people, though it is hard

I believe every little bit helps

My purpose is to seek truth, with love

My purpose is to show ever growing compassion

My purpose is to be a guardian knowing all life is precious

My purpose is to be a guardian knowing all life is precious

My purpose is to play the fool, freeing other from the confines of self-conscious over-evaluation

My purpose is to remind everyone they are artists even if they are not in practice

My purpose is to speak up for the voiceless

My purpose is to help revive a culture that sees the land as holy

My purpose is to physically cultivate a more fruitful and diverse world

My purpose is to rest apathy, doomsday prophesy and all other forms of ‘giving up’

My purpose is to challenge the dogma of the church and the corrupt laws of the government

My purpose is to use money to make money obsolete

My purpose is to focus on solutions based activism

My purpose is to propose a pose I see as perfect

My purpose is to stay humble always open to learn a new way

My purpose is to consistently maximize happiness and minimize luxury

My purpose is to learn appropriate fierceness

My purpose is to find balance and promote peace

My Will is to be the change

My Will is to be in the right relation to work

My Will is to be in clear communication with all

My Will is to be in right standing with all

My Will is to be a servant to all

“There will be a tribe of all people, of all nations, they will heal the water and clean the earth. They will live in peace and love. And the animals will not be afraid of them.” - Hopi prophesy

“My life’s work is to honor the great beautify all around you.” - Yaima

PRO ARTS GALLERY & COMMONS CONSTITUTIONAL SCRIPT FOR “PERFORMING PRO ARTS COMMONS” & MORALS CLAUSE (IN BOLD)

“PERFORMING PRO ARTS COMMONS”

written by

Dadais Americanus

150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 (U.S.A.)

info@proartsgallery.org

Performing Pro Arts COMMONS: To be performed across all available media in space.time

ACT 1

Pro Arts COMMONS Participant:

(Anyone or anything that wants to perform can be a Pro Arts COMMONS Participant. All Pro Arts COMMONS Participants are free to perform with complete artistic freedom.) 

This transmedia work of performance art, “Performing Pro Arts COMMONS,” is brought to you by Pro Arts COMMONS. All actions and measurements in space.time undertaken within the Pro Arts COMMONS are deemed to be artistic acts of performance by Pro Arts COMMONS Participants, unless such Participants indicate otherwise.

Performance inside Performing Pro Arts COMMONS is guided by improvisational interpretation of the perennially co-created and co-destroyed Pro Arts COMMONS Constitution, set forth in initial form in Act 2.

ACT 2

Pro Arts COMMONS Participant:

(Each Participant performing in artistic freedom.)

Pro Arts COMMONS Constitution

Pro Arts COMMONS is a global, peer-to-peer networked community, spearheading a movement towards a post-capitalist art economy. We disrupt the logic of capital through sustaining those commons-centric spaces, practices, and value production models that rewire the broken connections between artist, community, and everyday life.

We house exhibitions, symposiums, experimental music and film programs, literary events, reading groups, workshops, assemblies and community events, and short-term residencies. We are a local commons-centric network of autonomous organizations, collectives and individual artists and commoners. Our commonality lies in our desire to create a just, equitable, and decentralized art and culture economy.

As Pro Arts COMMONS Participants, Performing Pro Arts COMMONS, we improvise on the following basic principles:

• Autonomy in operations within the commons, whilst collectively holding space, operational and organizational systems, including income and expense streams, which we also hold collectively and equitably.

• All commoners participate in the governing and future direction, building collaboratively new platforms and programs that promote the format of the commons.

• All commoners pull material and immaterial resources in creating an environment of abundance that promotes collaboration and equitable distribution.

• Promote community care, participation, and transparency in financial, legal, and organizational structures, aligning with movements based in solidarity practices that empower the community above all as creators of art and culture.

• Pro Arts COMMONS’ model of operation, governance, and contributory system is embedded in the practices and principles of the community commons, and the ethics of mutual-aid, collaboration, and solidarity.

• We aim to decolonize the institution and empower the people above all.

• We aim to create a system in which creation will be embedded in our everyday lives.

• We aim to decommodify art and culture.

• We aim to reclaim the urban commons.

We are also a global networked community that shares values, as well as material and immaterial resources in the co-creation of ideas and critical engagements with the world. Both on a local and global level, we are communizing the practice, production and presentation of art and culture.

ACT π

Pro Arts COMMONS Participant:

(Each Participant performing in artistic freedom.)

(Transmedia improvisation across space.time until the end of π)