re: cities of the future
There's this MICA poster with the slogan "LIFE IS ART" or something. And I've realized that that slogan isn't/shouldn't be true for me. I've become conscious of choosing my personal limits for what parts of my life should and shouldn't be used for art. Like I now kind of think the dead seal was a breach of that limit. I justified it by calling it a funeral, or memorial, but ultimately I was just using it. It makes me feel kind of dirty. It was a pretty okay piece of art, yes, but I feel it's more important to be an okay person.
This idea of morality is certainly not a meter stick to limit or judge other people's art. It's just to make me feel better about myself.
Also, the moral desire to separate life from art actually seems to help conceive new directions for my art. I'm looking towards the purely imaginative, purely fictive. Everything made up. Also, this gives me a way to approach abstraction, something I could never justify before.
God, I'm such an old person. Or fearful. Or repressed.
This idea of morality is certainly not a meter stick to limit or judge other people's art. It's just to make me feel better about myself.
Also, the moral desire to separate life from art actually seems to help conceive new directions for my art. I'm looking towards the purely imaginative, purely fictive. Everything made up. Also, this gives me a way to approach abstraction, something I could never justify before.
God, I'm such an old person. Or fearful. Or repressed.