After yesterday’s post about writing on the move, and also creating works of some psychological push, I guess another edge of what I hope to do is to create meaning in the work.
It’s such an overused term though, putting meaning in our creative work. There’s random splotches of ink or paint in a a painting, and its supposed to reference some osbcure iconology somwhere. There’s reflections in the glass boubles of Dutch Masters work, because they intentionally meant something inside this or that. I get all that. It’s the one in our everyday sketches or drawings, and we hope to create some monumental piece of work from it. I think that might be highly unlikely at times.
But I think it is important to create something that had thought and not just an exorcism of a creative demon inside. Not for some everyday discipline having you paint a million circles, and from there you develop the art piece. Not that I disagree with it, but I think the humanness of us is to showcase some meaning in the things we want to communicate. The intention to transmit a long lasting message is the meaning I hope to share in my work. I don’t think it appears when someone spills a pot of paint, and stares at the can swinging back and forth in yet another acrylic spill painting.
It has to start from a place of emotion perhaps. An event moving me to express. A thought of frustration, sadness, happiness. The WHY needs to be answered.
(I should really read “Start With Why”, too many recommendations to ignore it any further)
Today’s post has to teach this lesson to the readers, you, and to myself. I have to remember to create meaning in the work I do, because that’s why I want to make something. I want to be human, and to share a message to share with someone else.
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