My younger self had hands on the ground more than feet and i felt compelled or even forced to say after each attempt - wow - incredible - amazing. I did this because i used to do the same with my drawing attempts. I would rustle up a sketch of a cowboy or an eagle and show the sketch to everyone - that need for affirmation drove me to my next sketch. So the fact that im still sketching and pushing ideas, i now recognize my handstand self. The difference now at 47 years, i dont have this insatiable need for external affirmation as i did back then. Hay dont get me wrong - i love any small wow or oohs or even an aaagh - but i recognize when its real or not. so i do my handstand - good bad and downright ugly - i stand up and simply do another one. If i have the privilege of an audience thats awesome. However whats driving me to put my hands onto the floor again isnt the need for their affirmation anymore.
However i do try self artistically evaluate - mostly the sketches are to make sense of a fleeting design concept. Capture the butterfly of creative thought in a sketch - I must say my ability to capture doesn't equal the imagined concept in my head - It always seems like i almost get my artistic expressive legs in the air, before i come crashing down to the earth again. But hay the point of this is - one must never stop trying to communicate your artistic ideas. So many highly talented, super sensitive creative gifted people stop creating because of a lack of appreciation of their expression from the "audience". The audience of critics is secondary to the creative itch you must simply keep scratching my friend.
That to me is extremely sad - a young close relative of mine used to love singing and at 7 they used to sing around the house and fill the space with such enthusiasm and lovely warm vibrant sound energy. I really loved it. I made the complete and absolute fatal mistake of encouraging them to share this energy. I told them to sing infront of the audience for a school assignment - The panel of teachers where sadly not equipped to deal with the handstand build to gymnast creative phenomena - and the upshot of that is the young relative, now 18yrs has not ever filled the space with their beautiful voice since then. They where emphatically handstand silenced by the audience - they where very nervous , and possibly didn't sing as well as they could - instead of encouraging further development of the expressive skill at 7, it was very important for the non educator audience inquisition gestapo to crush them completely. Why educators are determined to crush potentail and destroy artistic expression is beyond me. To much attitude SC (Simon Cowell) - people think its their god given duty to tell expressionists and exhibitionists to please stop - lets face it - have you heard ol Simon Critic sing - i haven't - maybe he can - maybe he cant - but he is the self appointed absolute final say on singing ability - And yes for the show its absolutely necessary. The audience loves a good creative assassination.
That to me is extremely sad - a young close relative of mine used to love singing and at 7 they used to sing around the house and fill the space with such enthusiasm and lovely warm vibrant sound energy. I really loved it. I made the complete and absolute fatal mistake of encouraging them to share this energy. I told them to sing infront of the audience for a school assignment - The panel of teachers where sadly not equipped to deal with the handstand build to gymnast creative phenomena - and the upshot of that is the young relative, now 18yrs has not ever filled the space with their beautiful voice since then. They where emphatically handstand silenced by the audience - they where very nervous , and possibly didn't sing as well as they could - instead of encouraging further development of the expressive skill at 7, it was very important for the non educator audience inquisition gestapo to crush them completely. Why educators are determined to crush potentail and destroy artistic expression is beyond me. To much attitude SC (Simon Cowell) - people think its their god given duty to tell expressionists and exhibitionists to please stop - lets face it - have you heard ol Simon Critic sing - i haven't - maybe he can - maybe he cant - but he is the self appointed absolute final say on singing ability - And yes for the show its absolutely necessary. The audience loves a good creative assassination.
For more artistic expressive beauty in this life - we simply need more handstand expressionists - we must not ever stifle creative expression - critics to my mind cant usually do what they criticize, therefore to look creatively and artistically capable they with much venom criticize. Having the guts to perform is the hardest obstacle facing the creative expressionist - even if you draw stick men - draw , draw , draw - i love stick men - because that stick man drawn, with that pen, by you - is one of a kind - and we need more one of a kind originality in this drab ol grey critic fueled world of robotic everything heading in the same direction limited AI fervor.
So my advise to my younger self now is. Dont ever stop doing hand stands, keep on sketching - one day - who knows you might be a gymnast or even an artist - and who cares if your not a world Olympic champion gymnast or if nobody buys your art work- you will have huge fun. You will keep fit, keep playing and live a life worth expressing and deep down living. Dont ever be overwhelmed by the pessimism of those critics who never had the guts to do handstands until their faces turned completely red. JUST KEEP GOING FOR IT. I for one will always be a design creatives best cheerleader. Kind encouragement is the water to a desert artistic creatives design artists pallette. Touch me on the shoulder, i will always cheer you creatively on. Tsak SC your time has come and gone. Creative artistic expressionists are doing it for themselves, standing on their own 2 hands....
So my advise to my younger self now is. Dont ever stop doing hand stands, keep on sketching - one day - who knows you might be a gymnast or even an artist - and who cares if your not a world Olympic champion gymnast or if nobody buys your art work- you will have huge fun. You will keep fit, keep playing and live a life worth expressing and deep down living. Dont ever be overwhelmed by the pessimism of those critics who never had the guts to do handstands until their faces turned completely red. JUST KEEP GOING FOR IT. I for one will always be a design creatives best cheerleader. Kind encouragement is the water to a desert artistic creatives design artists pallette. Touch me on the shoulder, i will always cheer you creatively on. Tsak SC your time has come and gone. Creative artistic expressionists are doing it for themselves, standing on their own 2 hands....
Simply try always be a creative creature not a hateful preacher!!!
