| Oct. 9th, 2008 @ 01:04 pm Art, Motivation, Life, History and Cable... |
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Current Location: Work
Current Mood: artistic
Hmmm...
I can see art as being a physical representation of someones thoughts. In other words making thoughts tangible to those that live outside your head. I really feel like that incompasses any form of art you can bring to the table. The breakdown in this is that everything we do, get up, sit, cry, shit, go to work, play video games, humm to ourselves, the whole damn kitt and kaboodles of life itself. That being said, the only thing that makes art art to the person who creates it is moivation. That only applies to the creater though. Someone else could look upon your mundane works and see art because it exemplifies something in their head that was nver put into some sort of tangable form.
Now that I've esablished a definition thing get complicated. If all we do is a tangible representation of our thoughts then we can view our lives as a performance art. If I were to stop drawing and writing I could create myself in the form of someonne who is not an artist. PARADOX!!
With the proper motivation we could "paint" ourselves as anything we want, success or faliure aside. Look at people like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Hitler, Ghandi, The Dali Lama all of them drew their limitation well above any expected line. They painted themselves outside the lines. They threw away the coloring book and drew thier own picture with their own lines. All of the names above are proof the our percieved boundries are just that. We have all given our own limitation based on how we see reality.
I think I'll paint myself as a cable guy for awhile, possibly a poet on the side. I still have an entire sketchbook that I haven't touched.
P.S. I'd like to add John Lennon to my list. He would have been 68 today. I'm thinkig we really should give peace a chance. |
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