Helllooo,
I’ve only been away for a few months, DID YOU MISS ME? Lol. I’m cooking stuffed peppers and a quinoa as we speak so Ill keep it light and happy- (another) LOL.
Hows everyone doing? I hope it was a good Christmas, holidays, kwanza, Hanukkah, all that good, good stuff. I am thinking of the importance of subjectivity throughout art. I think its imperative that all art is made to just see how it is. And then we’ll figure out if we like it. I believe its important to not be too judge-y while you’re in that playfully wonderful state of mind of creation. Cast those demons and ghosts and whatever the hell else there is aside. MAKE WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE.
I recently came across a painting done by Paul Kremer. I thought it was an elephant. Someone in the comments claimed it was a anteater. Now I'm not saying he’s wrong and I'm right, even though in my head I totally am. And I don’t know of course if he was being a- (lets go with dingleberry) and stirring people up. But it got me thinking of the importance of subjectivity in the art world. Subjectivity is: some may like it, some may not. To some it is right, to other it is not. Its not a fact. I think that’s important when looking through the historical lens of human expression.
Back to what I was thinking before all you fuckers get me off track was, Its not so much I’m right or she’s right. Its we’re all not wrong. Art is that weird place were we all get to play and the rules don’t apply except for the ones we give ourselves. I enjoy very little rules (its my world, I do what I want in it). Others may like realist portraiture and need those rules of skin tones and textures and got forbid you paint a purple person. All of it’s OKAY. Some like those rules, some cringe at the thought.
The only actual rule is that no one is wrong. Not that we are all right.
Now fuck off, I gotta go eat my peppers.