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As I have said in the past, what I often consider to be my thing is making stuff. Creating stuff.
And what I want to do more of is hands on stuff. Not poking pixels. While I have pixel projects to poke (eg Keys to the Future and all) I know it'd do me so much good to find things I can physically create.
Perhaps I should start angling towards ... non-derivative works as well as my fan stuff. I mean, heavens, I'd never give that up! I'm a dyed in the wool geek 'n all.
And this blog entry is apparently heavy on the word 'stuff'. Oh well. At least I'm not calling my things 'crap', right?
But thoughts have just come on back to me. A couple of years ago, when I was diagnosed with having an eye condition that could cause trouble in the future, it got me thinking. Perhaps it'd be worth me branching out into art things that aren't just about what you can see...
Then the eye condition turned into 'oh let's just check up on this every year or so' and any thoughts of being able to do stuff outside of work kinda petered out.
But right now, indeed, I have time to do stuff.
And the wondering started again. Maybe it would be worth investigating. Maybe it'd be worth making. Things where sound and touch and scent are important to the art, too, every bit as much as the visual (can't see how taste would work unless the art show provided snacks, but that's not a bad addition to art shows either, huh?) The whole experience. 3D not 2D not pictures on a screen. Heck, 'art in the dark' would make a heck of a title for a display (shut up in the back of my brain KH popcorn gallery). (I typed 'popcorn factory' first, whee.) If you're outdoors somewhere beautiful, you're experiencing the wind and sun around you, the sounds in the distance, the scents in the air... why can't art try and get a bit of that in there?
All that said, though, worried little thoughts are crossing my mind regarding such things, given I'm the sort of person who's made paranoid by talk on t'internet and who has recently dropped off certain prescriptions now that work is no longer a factor in my mental state. Like I'd be moving in on territory that doesn't need sighted artists stomping over it, that instead needs more space for all kinds of artists to stomp, cruise and bungee jump around - I never know, and I never know where to look with such things. (Yeah, yeah, 'Google'.)
I don't want to make people angry. Hell, I don't even want to make a statement. I just want to make people go 'hey that was pretty cool I enjoyed it and I'd like to enjoy more cool stuff of yours'.
...And this whole paragraph is probably fulfilling some internet law about 'as the length of the blog post increases the probability of the otherwise well meaning writer putting their foot in it approaches 1'. So apologies in advance.
Even if I don't touch on that stuff. Even if I start work on simpler artistic ... whatever. I've got to do something.
I'm mostly trying to tell myself something that I've read a million times. Though I can't think of the exact places I found the quotes... I remember a couple. This blog, for one, which kind of cheered me up a lot during those nasty work times. And this Penny Arcade news post that I couldn't remember for the life of me what exactly it said until much google fu was applied. But now the googles have been done I know why it stuck.
"Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can’t tell me that we are done making the world."
...Though all that said, I don't even know where I'd start creating such things with my limited resources and general lack of willingness to art outside of my own room. The rest of the house doesn't feel as comfortable for me to do stuff in freely, even as ridiculously indulgent in my nerdery as my folks are. It's just a personal space thing. That's always something that stands in my way.
Hmm.
And what I want to do more of is hands on stuff. Not poking pixels. While I have pixel projects to poke (eg Keys to the Future and all) I know it'd do me so much good to find things I can physically create.
Perhaps I should start angling towards ... non-derivative works as well as my fan stuff. I mean, heavens, I'd never give that up! I'm a dyed in the wool geek 'n all.
And this blog entry is apparently heavy on the word 'stuff'. Oh well. At least I'm not calling my things 'crap', right?
But thoughts have just come on back to me. A couple of years ago, when I was diagnosed with having an eye condition that could cause trouble in the future, it got me thinking. Perhaps it'd be worth me branching out into art things that aren't just about what you can see...
Then the eye condition turned into 'oh let's just check up on this every year or so' and any thoughts of being able to do stuff outside of work kinda petered out.
But right now, indeed, I have time to do stuff.
And the wondering started again. Maybe it would be worth investigating. Maybe it'd be worth making. Things where sound and touch and scent are important to the art, too, every bit as much as the visual (can't see how taste would work unless the art show provided snacks, but that's not a bad addition to art shows either, huh?) The whole experience. 3D not 2D not pictures on a screen. Heck, 'art in the dark' would make a heck of a title for a display (shut up in the back of my brain KH popcorn gallery). (I typed 'popcorn factory' first, whee.) If you're outdoors somewhere beautiful, you're experiencing the wind and sun around you, the sounds in the distance, the scents in the air... why can't art try and get a bit of that in there?
All that said, though, worried little thoughts are crossing my mind regarding such things, given I'm the sort of person who's made paranoid by talk on t'internet and who has recently dropped off certain prescriptions now that work is no longer a factor in my mental state. Like I'd be moving in on territory that doesn't need sighted artists stomping over it, that instead needs more space for all kinds of artists to stomp, cruise and bungee jump around - I never know, and I never know where to look with such things. (Yeah, yeah, 'Google'.)
I don't want to make people angry. Hell, I don't even want to make a statement. I just want to make people go 'hey that was pretty cool I enjoyed it and I'd like to enjoy more cool stuff of yours'.
...And this whole paragraph is probably fulfilling some internet law about 'as the length of the blog post increases the probability of the otherwise well meaning writer putting their foot in it approaches 1'. So apologies in advance.
Even if I don't touch on that stuff. Even if I start work on simpler artistic ... whatever. I've got to do something.
I'm mostly trying to tell myself something that I've read a million times. Though I can't think of the exact places I found the quotes... I remember a couple. This blog, for one, which kind of cheered me up a lot during those nasty work times. And this Penny Arcade news post that I couldn't remember for the life of me what exactly it said until much google fu was applied. But now the googles have been done I know why it stuck.
"Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can’t tell me that we are done making the world."
...Though all that said, I don't even know where I'd start creating such things with my limited resources and general lack of willingness to art outside of my own room. The rest of the house doesn't feel as comfortable for me to do stuff in freely, even as ridiculously indulgent in my nerdery as my folks are. It's just a personal space thing. That's always something that stands in my way.
Hmm.