Value in art and in tge artist
I want to talk about something, that’s been really digging at my core these past few months.
You ever go through one of those situations where, maybe art isnt being super great for you in a while, where you got a block, or depression, or even a lack of motivation.
And it obviously affects you and your surroundings, people dont like your stuff as much, whatever. But you still try, weak as it may seem, its taking a tremendous effort to make things.
Technically you can do them just fine, you know how it goes, you can just mechanically make your work right? But thats not really how art works so you dont do it.
Tgen along comes the fairy from her high horse and tells you you’re not making an effort, you’re not evolving, and this is why no one likes you anymore.
This fairy is blind to what you’ve been doing, blind in your efforts and ignorant of your struggle, so she fails to recognize tge value in what is going on.
Ignorance is a weapon, one that hurts the user, AND those around them.
Pride is the same. We often forget we have once been small, and will ALWAYS be small, no matter how far we’ve come.
I may not for example, be evolving in rendering my paintings toward hyper realism, or working on my figure posing. But maybe im working on the use of negative space? Expressions? Placement, composition, colour, design, writting, story telling, visual story telling, fidelity to a style,
And overall just a bunch of other things that might not be instantly recognizable but are just as important, if not sonetimes even more important, than rendering a fucking picture to hyper realism, maybe we dont want that? Maybe we want to be cubists! And tgat is a very degrading way of saying it but the point remaibs, whatever style we chosr, whatever level you have. Its fine, its more tgan fine, as long as you’re happy with it. Evolving in art doesnt always have to be something that changes “apparently dramatically”. As long as you’re learning, you’re evolving.
And thats the values we should all respect and go by, because without it, we’re just bitter and a sneer.
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