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I often wondered about the state creative folk find themselves in when they are inthe midst of something. For a while, I thought it was just me being escapist. However, after reading a text for my last class, which explained some of the cogs to the machine, it made sense. Well, we do what feels good most of the time, don't we? What else feels better than essentially bringing soul to life? Still, sometimes I feel rather like I am trying to escape the real world rather than represent it or capture its essence. And, sometimes I feel guilty about the amount of time I spend doing this sort of thing...bad news for someone going into an art field eh?
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Yep. Gotta get pat the guilt imposed by a world that tends to celebrate conformity.
Escapism isn't wrong... when you bring in something "not real" you express possibilities and potential.
You can make something real. I have long maintained that fiction authors change cultures more than philosophers... Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck had more effect on the conciousness of our nation than most philosophical journals.
Most of what science "proves" or "invents" is first conceived in art. Consider Jules Verne, consider Star Trek... art creates a vision, then reality embraces it and manifests it.
It is a basic magical process, really.
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Yep, even if you feel like you are escaping, you are actually adding to reality. I wouldn't feel bad about it at all. Unfortunately, modern society does not hold artists in the same esteem that it has in the past. People that try to make a living at it are laughed at for not being serious. But that's nonsense. Go for it!
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SOmetimes I wish I had lived in the Greek or Egyptian eras of art, though I know a lot of that was influenced politically per society. Still, even working within the constraints of the expectations then, look how long admired these things still are, thousands of years later. It's a real sin and shame that the great Sphinx and Pyramids are succumbing not so much to the desert around them but the pollution the "modern" peoples around them are causing. Once these things are gone, there will never be anything to match them. Ditto the Greek and Roman structures and temples.
I feel guilty sometimes in getting lost creatively because, while it is singularly satisfying, it is also sometimes lonely. I can explain to people and share, but they don't really "get" it. I just come off wierd. I am an awkward socializer, and find myself taking pains often to avoid human interaction except with my kids. It's wierd, the one thing a person might crave is enough reviled also to make a serious contradiction. Maybe I'm just wierd, flat out. I find lately that, in exploring who remembers me from high school ( our reunion is next October and we have been getting in contact through Facebook) a lot of people who I thought pretty much ignored my existence do recall who I was. I'm a bit worried about going, if I can, because I'm so not who I was. I don't think I could go back to that mindset, though it would be nice to have the self assuredness again. I had plenty of humility as far as my creations, but I was far more confident about my appearence. Nothing short of liposuction and plastic surgery would fix that now.
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Speaking of fiction and philosophers, my own personal favorite is Popeye the Sailor Man - not because of the spinach thing (although I do like spinach), but because of his philosophy, which is easily summed up in a single sentence -
"I am what I am and that's all that I am."
The beauty of the individual isn't in how he/she is like everybody else - that's the beauty of minnows - it's in how a person is different from everybody else. I'm talking about real, core differences, not external difference like clothing choices or tattoos - differences in how we meet, see, and react to the world.
As artists, we, maybe, don't always know how to hide "it" when we need to, but that's a very small problem compared to not having "it" at all - that would be too much like going blind.
Anyway, there comes a time when you just have to stand up and say "I am what I am and that's all that I am," and let the chips fall where they may...
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