Staying True
I have been meaning to sit down and write this for quite some time. But as I began I realized that defining what “staying true” to your art meant, the more confused I became. Perhaps if you just put up parameters or rules around ones style and if you deviate from it by outside influences ………no wait that won’t work. Is it possible to create art without being influenced by the ever-changing trends? Probably not unless you were to shut yourself away, totally off the grid. Well that’s not going to happen to me anytime soon.
Staying true to ones art is an ethical stance, which comes with creating and hand fashioning something into a form of expression to give another joy. Well if that is true, then no one can say if you are or are not staying true to your art. But what about the artist that makes those pieces ……you know the ones that look just like everyone else’s. They claim they only make them because the sell. Well someone getting joy from it right? Hmmm what about the artist that changes their style with the changing trends. For example, so let say florescent plastic golf balls were showing up on the runways of Paris. Are you going to jump on the band wagon and start putting golf balls into your work? I think not but there are those that do. And I think that is not staying true to your art.
It’s a passion that we have, and we are not complete until we finish the expression. My creative process is very slow. I never know what it is that I am going to make before I make it. When I buy beads its really random but when I finally sit down and begin to built my expression that I hope that will give someone joy, I never consider will this sell, is it “in”, who will wear this, I just create it and put it out there. This artist is staying true to her art. Whatever that is….
I have been meaning to sit down and write this for quite some time. But as I began I realized that defining what “staying true” to your art meant, the more confused I became. Perhaps if you just put up parameters or rules around ones style and if you deviate from it by outside influences ………no wait that won’t work. Is it possible to create art without being influenced by the ever-changing trends? Probably not unless you were to shut yourself away, totally off the grid. Well that’s not going to happen to me anytime soon.
Staying true to ones art is an ethical stance, which comes with creating and hand fashioning something into a form of expression to give another joy. Well if that is true, then no one can say if you are or are not staying true to your art. But what about the artist that makes those pieces ……you know the ones that look just like everyone else’s. They claim they only make them because the sell. Well someone getting joy from it right? Hmmm what about the artist that changes their style with the changing trends. For example, so let say florescent plastic golf balls were showing up on the runways of Paris. Are you going to jump on the band wagon and start putting golf balls into your work? I think not but there are those that do. And I think that is not staying true to your art.
It’s a passion that we have, and we are not complete until we finish the expression. My creative process is very slow. I never know what it is that I am going to make before I make it. When I buy beads its really random but when I finally sit down and begin to built my expression that I hope that will give someone joy, I never consider will this sell, is it “in”, who will wear this, I just create it and put it out there. This artist is staying true to her art. Whatever that is….
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