I think I’m about halfway through Act 2 of Silksong, so no spoilers please, but I realized today there is a strong motif of the artist in it. From Sherma’s improvised songs, to Flimt’s shard sculptures, to the Seamstress out in Far Fields weaving her cloth, the Green Prince’s lover with his mechanical creations, even Shakra with her hand-drawn maps, so many characters are canonically artists of types that normally aren’t considered in discussions of art.
Then I find myself thinking of the strings that ensnare, which are used for art and do evoke powerful emotions, but leave so many husks behind them. Of Widow, spinning & strumming threads spun by something else with her own silk bound and her mask forcibly stripped away from her.
And I think about what the triple-A games industry does to the people who make & consume their games, and I think about how this game is a 7yr long passion project done by a small studio that got very lucky, and I don’t know if the whole theme of contrasting the small artist vs soul crushing industry is actually going to be plot relevant or if it’s just another example of how we cannot make art without putting our perspectives into it so all art will be full of the creator’s beliefs, but it makes me very emotional.
