2008, February 24
Paintings and Poetry
update recap & intro
i've maintained since i first came up with the idea of "art beyond the bubble!" that quality of art was beyond the speculative bidding of the value of art; that a work of art's true value was intrinsic to the work and the person interacting with that work, not to what the work might bring in the marketplace
commercial value is valid and certainly worth being aware of, as is the fact that that value may vary more widely than the value the art work has to individual people, which could range, in the positive, from merely sentimental, to priceless
evolvement
what i am presenting here is my own idea that, applied to my own art, "art beyond the bubble!" further defines the notion that an artist doesn't have to only present or prefer or produce only one type of art for self fulfillment
i've both painted and written for most my life (and to lessor degrees
played music, danced, sang, and acted) and was always told i must keep
the two separate, as two different types people responded to each
art
while somewhat generally true, that someone liking visual art may not prefer to
listen to or read poetry, and vice versa, it is not true for all
people, and is definitely not true for me
so i no longer will present them apart from each other, other than that
they are on separate pages on my site, and will no longer present
myself on one hand as an artist, and on the other as a poet (though that i'm
not tall dark and handsome i'll still begrudge :-)
decision, result
i had been coming to this conclusion of identity for quite some time,
and found that when it came together for me i felt not only relief, but
immense satisfaction, and that the following phrase for my writings
came immediately to me:
"the
act of giving your thoughts to one you love can be as important as
the thought itself"
the phrase was the poetry component to what i had expressed in a
jazzercise interview my wife sheila and i recently gave that expressed some of what i hoped my work in the arts might do: "My goal is to enjoyably create things that will potentially outlast me
and provide an emotional quickening or reminder for people of things
they would find, within themselves, worth living for."
analogy to financials
drawing my analogy back closer to the financial arena, where i first thought
of my trademark "art beyond the bubble!", feeling art had to re-break itself from valuing itself merely
on speculation, upon just money, i realized if my art is truly to be beyond the speculative bubble of asset inflation, it must also be beyond a
speculative inflated expectation within myself that creating only one art asset
class was most desirable, wise, or healthy for me - it was time to diversify :-)
it was time to honor my value for authenticity
it is time to be more whole
serendipity
as it happened, fineartviews newsletter had presented an article by lori woodward simons, "defining your personal goals - part 1" followed by another, "determine what you want from your art career" by alyson stanfield, which i replied to: my comment / reply was then printed in a follow-up issue
my comment / reply itself is merely recognizing the coincidence and
remarking on it, but the articles i responded to are worth reading in themselves, especially for
anyone interested in creating art and finding more
self-fulfillment
i've reprinted my comments below with links to both articles, and
hope they trigger or validate some of your own hopes, thoughts, and
wishes as well
thank you much,
adan
www.adanlerma.com
ps - in a future update installment, possibly as a new artist statement, i will talk a little about how the
two art forms, painting and poetry, seem to feed my work in each other without my having to put "words"
into my paintings, or physical images behind my writings, ie, within
me, sustaining and encouraging me as a creative person to enjoy what
i'm doing
