What do you want?

I am here to please you

Not really, I am creating art. My art. My ideas, thoughts and passions are created for me. My feelings expressed in paint or sound or movement.

You, the viewer, are a participant in my experiment to show or tell my inner most wonders and hope you understand.

If you appreciate it and applaud, don’t forget to drop a few coins in the tip bucket.

An artist doesn’t work for minimum wage. An artist does not have an insurance plan. An artist does not have a 401k or a pension. An artist does have a passion to create and present their feelings where few where venture.

To make a living wage or at least a means of sustenance’s, an artist must conform to the general public’s whims. No matter how extreme or revolutionary an artist might consider their work is, to earn a living the works must sell.

The public can be persuaded to appreciate radical ideas and with enough positive critical response believes whatever the artwork is worth the price. If the artist can make a name or an icon of themselves, anything after that can be thrown together and sell.

For the rest of us, we must cater to the public’s whims. If they want flowers or unicorns or swan dances or Bach tributes, we will comply. A background dancer on a Beyonce video or a oboe player in the Boston Pops or a mural painter in Milwaukee or the bass player for Paul Simon will make a sustainable living wage without pleasing you…the public.

The most creative ideas and thoughts must be put aside for they might appeal or might not and to feed a family and afford travel the artist or performer or musician or creator will put aside personal passion to present art to please you.

Try This...

We use our eyes and voice and smell to recognize and establish items to tell the brain what it is, but what if one of those senses was not there?

Take a look at a painting.

Now describe it to another person without them seeing it.

Sounds easy?

I challenge you to do this. Why?

It will surprise you and to the one you are trying to describe the image without viewing it.

Take this example of the Mona Lisa.

“There is this lady, well a woman. She doesn’t look old or young but may mature. She’s got a long nose so maybe Italian but the eyes look like there is a lack of sleep. Here skin tone is sort of yellow or white and here eyes are dark. She is standing, no maybe sitting still. Her hands are folded on her lap. Her shoulder hair is straight and parted in the middle but with curly ends and her dress or whatever she is wearing is dark. Looks like she is wear a hoodie over a peasant’s dress with just a hint of cleavage. She might be plump or maybe pregnant. Behind her is some kind of winding road going to a lake or a river. There is a cliff and some trees and a bridge but it is very vague. She is looking over to the right side and has a somewhat grin going on.”

Can you visualize what I just said? Could you draw or sketch or paint the vision in your head?

Now try a Jackson Pollack or a Rodin or a Led Zeppelin concert. Unless you experienced the same feelings and discussed the reactions afterwards, it is difficult to explain to another.

The same is for a reading or a viewing or any personal influence to share with another who is a virgin to the thought.

Just let everyone enjoy or define his or her own meaning of the experience.