In with the new and out with the old
Many of my thoughts and ideas tend to revolve around the concept of art. I almost tend to see my ideas as art in itself. But I don't like this word, art. Its extremely loaded with millions of personal definitions. For example, the moment I mentioned the fact that an idea in itself is an art, many people may have pictured some artsy fartsy pretentious man saying this. Thats exactly why I do not want to associate myself with the identity of an artist. I am nothing more than a human being. Whenever I describe myself as an artist or emerging artist, there seems to be an automatic and invisible divide between myself and others. Why and what this is, I do not know. I don't want the world to see me as primarily an artist, as something different than a human being, or as someone better or worse than anyone else. In essence we are all artists. We all struggle with the experience and process of mark making and the justification of our own self-relevance, humans living and breathing the experience of life, but that isn't an artist, that's a human being. I am not an artist, I am not a poet, I am not a visionary, I am a human being. I am an invisible man. I do not make art. I leave marks. And since my old blog title was: an artist without an audience, it is now time for a change.
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You may be nothing more than a human being, but you are one in which can tap into a different level of life. We create this norm for ourselves and choose to live surrounded by people who can relate to us: friends. Even if your friends can only share a SLIGHT relation to your thoughts or actions, we can automatically justify what we do, because we are not alone anymore. That's how we start to believe we are only human. Yes we all struggle and experience life in unison, but stand beside someone who has never sat to think about life, someone who doesn't have a hobby other than to hang around other people who do not have hobbies, and you'll see that you aren't normal anymore: you are art. The invisible division is that they can't seem to wrap their heads around your ability to step back an capture life in thoughts and art. They don't understand, and cannot see a relation, therefor making you "an artist". There are SO MANY people who aren't able to think on higher levels, because they've never had an interest to, and choose to live life moment by moment. The question is, which leads a happier life? Or is the question who leaves a bigger mark?
Always been moved by your "marks".
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