So we’ve had a lot of fun with hats and owligators and stuff. It’s been great. Let’s do that some more. Any suggestions?
On the other hand, I had a couple of pretty black hours the other week and an illustrated poem came out of it. It helped me through those hours, but it’s kind of bring-downer. Should I post? Is it the artist’s job to say what he thinks, good bad or indifferent? Should I assume that medicine for me is medicine for you? Should I just give in to artistic vanity and post because I think it’s good work? Or should I not post? Should I decide that people don’t need my inner struggle? Decide that if it’s medicine for me that’s all it needed to do? Decide that the best thing for me to do is to try to be entertaining, give people a good time, and keep the rest to myself?
I’ve been back and forth on this. What do you think?
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I think cartoons are like any other art form; the best stuff comes from the heart and soul of the artist. What the audience may take from it is of little consequence. Be true to yourself.
Do I detect a conscience mixed with a touch of vanity? You want to post it so do – but understand that it may not stimulate any sort of balm for others – we have to create that for ourselves. It could however impress in other ways
Just do it!
(That would be more like “vanity with a touch of conscience”. -Ed.)
I quite agree with the above posted comments.
Well, now that you’ve told us it exists, you simply have to break the suspense and share. That, and I think if all life was giggles and kittens, we would seriously be missing out on the richness of experience…
We are your audience but that does not permanently obligate you to be our performer.. show what you feel like and keep the rest unpublished. Does self-awareness coexist with self-consciousness?
hello rev,
i agree with bridget and a few others,too. let your true self out. what an artist supposed to do?, let everything out and then let us judge what’s dark what’s light and what’s good or bad for us!! art is not just entertainment, if goya hesitated with his dark etchings and kept that to himself, then the whole world would lost the genius of his dark-struggle and his need to express the ugly and outrageous part of life-struggle and oppression.
Does the artist always know what he or she will evoke in the viewer? That part can’t be controlled and you wouldn’t even want to try. The transformation process is never painless but it is something that once completed most are grateful for. Unless you are deliberately setting out to wound and destroy, which you clearly aren’t here, I don’t see any problem. I’m thinking now of things like “Piss Christ” which was a crucifix set in an aquarium full of urine or the tin can in which somebody took a crap and sealed. What about some of the more arcane Mapplethorpe? Even though I may be offended at one level, at another I’m stimulated to think in a different way and at the end of the day I’m free to think the stuff is crap and walk away. My call.
Post…. yes….
The question is: “If it had been **YOU** under the bus — would the sparrow have published?”