Don’t ever kid yourself. The story is perceived from one lens but you are many aspects if you pay attention. With language so much can be understood and in place of ranting today I’m going to share what I can in what I can communicate with positivity vs negatives.
Everything bases on contrast in art and it took me years to understand as someone who grew up based largely in the English language basing perception of positive and negative meaning emotion.
It was only in my adult years introduced to the language of art speak with positive and negative as terms of communicating ideas that would take time to understand. I felt like an idiot among art people who understood and would wield art language over my head while all the time for lack of a better term, sucking, at what they did and try to make me feel inferior.
Some of us I suppose draw ourselves into a calling from a current we can connect with and it takes time like whirls in the water. Like a current picked up from the sea that feeds the trees and then comes back to you.
Current (blue blur)
In the industrial age it made a sea of people fighting and social media equally so but at the end of the day we do all we can to keep our heads up. The tide goes in and it goes out with rising swells.
When I was a teenager I was motivated by reading about M.C. Escher who spent a decade to understand geometry to make art with an idea he had he knew he wanted to realize. His work influences so much work today and he’s a classic example of an artist who was suffering in his time.
What has changed in the modern era is how the value of art has risen to an explosive rate like nothing else and I’m amazed to see it and be part of it. Today if you learn to code you can write patterns and it may take a long climb and feel like hell, like getting that chlorine sting in your nose or sea water but in best of times a part of that tide will pull you up from the undertow.
I’m committing to this to attribute inspiration from deep roots of what drives the art not so much based on a timeline but connections that help me keep my head above water.