This last while has been an immensely challenging time for everyone that I know. Using ones personal tragic difficulties as a reason for not pushing forward, is not really received by others as sensitively as it was in the past. Mostly because every single person that I know, in the last while has had things happen to them personally, that are really incredibly difficult to try and process. so one just starts comparing personal tragedies and then that's not really a conversation to wrap around. One wants to try go forward and build positively on an interaction.
This next concept is not exact science, more opinion than fact, however its my process of trying to understand a bigger conceptual picture.
As an artist or creative person, life works and passes through ones very flesh and bones. We take on board the collective suffering as a malignant boil hitchiker. My limited experience with pure scientific analytical thinkers or engineering minds. It does appear they tend to have programs within their make up that can helpfully screen or deflect aspects of deep collective trauma emotional life lived. Perhaps it helps them cope better with world wide tragedy on a much grander scale. It appears to me they don't process global tragedy in the exact same way as a creative artist does.
An analytical engineering mind will look at a news article about an unfolding tragedy far across the globe, process that they cant really do anything to help . And seemlessly move on with what they can control. An artistic mind takes in the same information and is completely shut down by the immense insecurity and suffering of it all. Shut down completely depressed as this fisceral human collective experience filters through them like a creeping cancer.
Perhaps one can liken it to the effects of a nuclear blast - some victims are instantly vaporized where they stand, the full intensity of the nuclear blast passing through their very flesh, leaves their individual permanent shadow behind as the only evidence they ever existed. This is how an artist creates, to my mind the permanent shadow left behind is the intensity of the artistic work left after dealing with the intricate process of living this intense life.
It appears and in very simple terms engineering minds are able to stand behind an emotional protection screen of sorts. So they don't experience the blast passing through them. So there is no permanent artistic work shadow left as evidence on the wall. Both ways of dealing with the same scenario are necessary for human development to my mind. just one has a much greater toll on the individual in the end. Perhaps our perception that its all simply a mental chemical illness, is not correct. When more than likely its a reactive process to visceral life passing through one like a nuclear explosion.
Artists work that resonates the most with me is that which captures the intensity of living within this life. As if life is passing through the artistic creative. Leaving a permanent shadow as artistic evidence to behold, unpack and collectively study and experience.
I used to think artistic creativity only left behind a portfolio of skeletal thought as evidence. Mostly useless sketches of thought, all leading towards some type of proof towards the improving talent of artistic perfection in the individual.
However as world wide tragedy currently escalates, I'm seeing the role of the artist is to create permanent documented vaporized shadows as evidence of the emotional human life lived. Perhaps for a warning to future decoded artistic sensitive mind. The Alarm of the tragic lessons being learnt after life has been lived through artistic visual evidence.
Scientific observation of minds, scientists that peer deeply into the building blocks of life are vastly different to the creative pseudo scientific mind that actively seeks to manipulate and weaponize lifes minute structures. Mostly to the detriment of all on the planet.
Those minds that are content to simply observe, witness and those other minds that will, "oh so easily", manipulate what they can. To then blindly stand back and watch the after effects of their sinister handy work , to carefully document so they can repeat cut paste profiter and capatalise on universal suffering.
Well very sadly, we are now dealing with the after effects of those that scientifically fiddle and manipulate to then microscope watch the deadly effects of their manipulated potions. These little minded nameless greedy idiots that seek to try carry greater weapons of behind the scenes control. They simply prove that man is a complete fool, who has proven beyond a shadow of doubt, that he cannot rule himself. Those that manipulate the very stitched fabric of the building blocks of life, will themselves suffer the consequence of their evil handiwork. Perhaps more do than those who live the emotionsl intensity of collective life lived.
So as we now observe the world stage being set for our own chaotic apocalypse, its the creative artists silent vaporized artistic shadow story that will leave behind small evidence, in this cuttent age of complete vaporised destruction!!
Art that captures mans ability to inflict manipulative suffering on other earth creatures. Is creative art that will tell a story for future minds to unpack, learn and see the greedy minded from the valuable good.
Let your work paint the intense vaporised picture.
