#conceptual
You Don’t Have to Choose Between Happiness and Being Informed!
Even relatively politically engaged people tend to believe society’s biggest problems are things like sexism or drag shows, and they generally support one of the two mainstream political factions who are both driving us toward destruction.
I still have to read the article, but nevertheless, the headline resonates with me.
... and some of the article as well
Instead, you begin to see that as confused and shitty as our civilization is, we’re still living in an amazingly #beautiful world, whose beauty is so much vaster and more ancient than all the #conceptual bullshit we’ve heaped upon the human experience. You start to find joy in real things. The thundering majesty of nature. That spark of authenticity in people’s eyes. The crackle of #magic at the train station. Something as simple as a piece of garbage catching the light just right can make you coo and giggle with delight like an infant.
I wonder how that article will end.
"Lighting in a Bottle" (quick sketch) — Digital, cartoon-style rough sketch of a transparent glass bottle, capped by a cork, inside the bottle are some lighning emanating from some clouds.
(Putting the image description here, since the Diaspora software front-end doesn't seem to provide any way to put an image description to uploaded images, that I can seem to find. And since I already have the image description in my clipboard cache anyway, from typing it up for my Pixelfed and Mastodon.Cloud.)
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#illustration #aphorism #DigitalSketch #DigitalDrawing #Krita4Windows #conceptual / #fz_drawing
"Serve what?" (Sept. 2021)
A few days ago I encountered a moodboard-pic with the following text:
“Artists are not like athletes. We cannot win gold. We cannot ‘beat’ other creatives. We cannot come first. Sport is objective. Our craft is subjective. Creating to ‘be the best’ is a waste of energy. Instead, create to connect to the people who need you. Because they're out there. Create in your way, because there is no right way. Take the pressure off, and focus on your unique brand of magic.”
Now I do not disagree with it, but it did get me thinking, what kind of art do people need me for? What am I supposed to serve?
So I thought of a spatula serving a question mark. And that's it, that's all it is. The question, "Serve what?"
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#drawing #digitalart #illustration #conceptual #cartoonstyle #anxiety #artistry #selfdoubt #serve #spatula #question #fz_drawing
OVER AND OVER. AND OVER AND OVER (1971) + Placed on the Tip of a Wave (2009)
#art #conceptual by Lawrence #Weiner