“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
Allen Ginsberg
As a kid, I was often told I was definitely an artist -as if this were a delineation or designation of a type of person. Looking back, perhaps they were saying I was aesthetically or otherwise weird in a polite way. But I do enjoy art, and have always worked to develop beauty (or at least meaningful commentary) on the world around me -or future and potential worlds that could be.
More recently, I’ve considered “working in the arts” more deliberately, marketing things, making deadlines. Admittedly, for most creative projects, the mere concept of capitalist exchange in these arenas elicits superstitious fears that the art will lose all meaning, so I work quietly on things at home and don’t often sell these or enter the present arena. But truthfully, I do like making art.
Artists (as a class) don’t really exist to me. The concept of an artist is here to ensure only some people create, think, and communicate novelty, sincerity, and wit out into the world. The artist is a soothsayer, an inventor, a reporter, and hopefully a change-maker. In a healthier world, everyone and no one.
We all must make art.
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
These days, in the A/V world, I enjoy producing EDM and ambient music, photography and other digital art.
In the past, I’ve frequently created visual arts in acrylics, ceramics and sculpture.
In the future, I hope to work more in multi-media, production, painting, and transparencies with light.
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci