RE: First thoughts to Update #1 (White Paper) / Erste Gedanken zu Update #1 (White Paper)
I am still, after 4 years, not as nimble on the platform as I’d like to be. I could not find the original thread of the conversation, but am glad to have been included as one who could give his two cents worth.
The part about Steemit not paying a living wage is food for thought. Granted, I love the platform as a place to accumulate dollars and cents, and I get that artists (or any content-makers for that matter), should not have their time taxed doing things to please others for likes and pennies. That’s why I don’t participate in contests or “detailing my process”, as I’ve been asked to do many times. The making of art is my full time occupation. I don’t need to show process to all and sundry for nickels and dimes. I don’t do it on Instagram for free, nor will I do it here for a pittance. I’m a Stuckist, and my duty is to harness and ride the wild Internet in order to exhibit my work. I love Steemit for the bright minds and the fact that when turned on, some even toss me a “tip” to encourage more expression.
One thing for certain... I love to share my art, take it or leave it. The last thing I ever expect is for any one to like it. I don’t even like it that much. I paint to attack the ego, to punish it, to make it feel bad. I want to show everything I do, so everyone can see I’m nothing much, just like them. Or something godlike, just like them. I don’t write and paint for money or fame; I think I do it to exhaust my ego eventually, and start a garden and then shut up.
Time and persistence will tell:)
Lake Ontario must be wonderful. One must paint or write. Or pull the thread of the reapers very easily in your latitude. Art is that need to create, which the artist has. The structures and laws of art matter little. When you create, you are a God creator of worlds. You are creating. There is no time for petty technicalities. Everything revolves around the creative act and the feelings that emerge. It is the inner struggle of what is being born on paper, on canvas, in the air. What do human miseries matter? Art is. It prevails. You are, the artist. Consider yourself the artist. You don't need to prove anything. Your art is your child that already has a life of its own. You will know the father through the son. You will be recognized.
The one who writes thinking about what he could earn, (maybe, he is not an artist). You write or paint or compose because it is a necessity. So you are going to be creating your work, even if there is, or not, any of these new structures with ridiculous paradigms. So I understand what you're saying: that you're not writing or creating to please anyone but yourself. Least of all for a derisory price. History is full of artists who died with limitations, but their works are like the sun. They melt the waxen wings of those who try to get too close. There is no magic rule: what is good in art, does everything have an audience? Money should be the consequence of the quality of your work. Can your art go unnoticed? Would that matter? Would you stop creating your work because it is not valued?
I will create. The universe will bring the answer. On a sunny morning. It would be sunny as hell. With eight little kids flying a kite. The noise and frothing of someone in agony. Maybe without an ear demanded by a prostitute. A single painting sold, sadly, to a friend. Two thousand paintings to prove the address. Sunflowers and almond blossoms.
I haven’t had my tea and coffee shots. So I respond with choppy gratitude.
Thank you for the insight, which I agree with en total, though could never express so fluidly. It means a lot when people take the time to take the time:)
The best answer is always to share experiences, to relate to each other. Art is the bridge that unites artists. Words and criteria are part of the drive. Of the motivation. Art is this well that fills up every day, that when it bursts springs, its flow forces you to write, or to mix colors. The flows of the soul sweeping everything in its path.
#write #comment
An excellent reflection that I also agree with. I will bring it into the Second Update.
Cheers.
P.S. - I'll contact you later today.
Thanks for your time commenting. If you go to the top of this page, you can find the link to Hefestus Editions, where all the posts regarding this subject are published. Your observations are of value and I will include them in the Next update to the White Paper proposal.
Cheers.
Thanks for the direction.
Cheers to you too!
If it's needed at all you find the threat somewhere up. It was good to read you but not my my idea or what has been discussed. A great day/weekend.
Thank you, and a good weekend for you too!
@solperez
Thank you!