"Art and Fear," can be taken as a premise and a hypothesis to whatever aims one wants to go with it, to conquer fear is mine alone, to overcome anxiety is mine too, knowing that I am not the only one is comforting enough, we share a common sense of this interplay of art and fear, this books goes on to present these observations with a much to do about why doing is so important yet common to artists, but does not present: "a how to way" as to overcome a common stumbling block to creativity that many artists face; unfortunately, one critic of this book says that it presents the why and not the how of doing art when faced with fear, in what is its worth, it is a what observation; but when a what observation is taken as a premise and we readers take it upon ourselves to make and take away from this book what we find applicable to us alone and personally, we have come up with our how to approach and overcome this stumbling to our creativity and procrastination until something of a pleasurable emotion or mood hits us is wrongly taught us in mythic proportions assumed to be true. I am saying this because this is me and not is represented in this book. It is a sequel to the premises set forth here to come.
"Art and Fear," is a message that I wanted and needed to hear, because I had had fits of starting out painting and drawing at many times then quitting then wanting and coming back to it again...repeatedly asking myself: "why do it?" if it was such a frustrating activity for myself only, i.e. why cause such unneeded frustrations to failure? The answer I gleaned indirectly after reading this book was, it is a "thankless...job to..." for me personally to get under what is seemingly the surface of appearance into the deeper unseen stuff of reality. I am now with a purpose, because I am highly creative and love to express it, I do art with fear, but afterwards, I give it away as an expression of love for the presentation may not be perfect, it is anyhow, a better thing to give more personal and not something that can be purchased with a price from a store commercially so. It is thus a part of me produced incapsulating a moment of emotional wish fulfillment.
The work is thus a proof of thoughtfulness and mindfulness. It is after many tries at entry that one finds a way into the creation of a piece of art. It goes beyond a proof that I exist, then it is a proof that what I thought of is not something subjective, that which only exists in the mind for one moment and then can disappeared, because I gave it a life to live on its own structure and form, it can live outside of me as an objective thing materialistically realistic. To give something a form and structure to the known that one fears is highly liberating and empowering to put a name to an unknown disease appeases the mind and gives it a sense of relief and release like a sneeze.
Just to know that it is ordinary people who commonly faced fear daily and to be able to find a way to express it creatively, i.e. to find that one is an anger and to put such anger into a passionate form that is creatively is useful of one's pent up emotions instead of doing something destructive one can do something because it is a highly personal choice do something else that is more within one's interest and therapeutic too, constructive and thus leave the criticisms to others, I don't have control over what made you say what you did that hurts me nor what you did that I cannot comprehend, but I have some control over what I see and hear and that which can be expressed without words in a piece of art be it in any form whatsoever I have produced. I help shaped my destiny and thus am independent of what you have done to me says a lot about our own free will in response to tragedy. Personally, I am battling with Cancer, and Art done be it of any form not perfect is the perfect way to respond to my fate with my time limited to me. I do what I can do...which is to preserve a piece of me personally to people of whom I presented this gift of me to hopefully outlast me, it is not mean to be exhibited in any fashion. To those who know me, this presentation is what is meant to convey in its expression a part of me eternally from my innermost being to be cherished for I know that I may live longer than what is imposed on me.
Therefore, when faced with fear and anger, what is one to do? One can do art that gives form and function as much as structure if not to tame the fears and inner self realization of terminal illness to give what is really who one is to people of the world in some objective way one's own sense of tragedy transformed into something inspirational to another person. Carry on, I say, with whatever vision that may never be fully realizable now, but to be comprehensive enough for otherrs to carry on with one's wishes. It is liken to ordinary people writing a will, it is then a message on the ocean of life.
The above observation is not what is given as the purpose in this book for why people do what they can call art. But it is what I can add to this purpose among many of why people do what they did. I got the most out of this book when I took off where I had left off in the first place when I was highly creative in the past and now wished to revisited that inspirational time and to create something that was that good and great, but I came to a realization that I had bestilled a higher purpose in the application of this inner desire to do something that I had no training to do, but raw inner desire that many people share for art, forget geniuses, I am surly not one of these Mozarts.
From one hand to another, I hoped to convey hope for anyone who says that this book does not show you how someone is going to overcome an artistic block and just to do it...simply is the stumbling block, I hoped that from the sole purpose of knowing another why one does it and if it is only a giving away thing, it needs not be perfection given away, one can do it to give something highly personal, such as here, a condition that one is going through in life that has not a name or a form apart from calling it fear that is overwhelming such as Cancer, to find in this activity a solace to grapple with it conceptually so to put a good grip on a reality and then turn it into something productive to say something positive about why one lived and continues to live is important enough to communicate to someone else why one is here in the first place, that one has value and these are the values that sustained my creativity for its own rewards is saying I am valued because I exist. The object may be an object of affection only to me in regards to it, it is cherished for its imperfections than its closeness to being perfect. It is simply an interplay of work with the pleasure of lovingly spending the time doing something that gives hope to anyone looking for any in their time of despair to overcome their challenges. Not to be discouraged, but to go ahead, from my hands and mind, and heart to yours, I encourage you to try something new, go ahead, no one needs to know and it is with this private playful practice that we become a professional, you and I know we have to start somewhere where there is at times only us on the innermost of our being have the seeded desire to begin an adventure into the unknown with fear are we procrastinating to begin shaping our future as to avoid painful emotional hurts from criticisms. I say to you, I have learned and this is not found in this book, I have no control over what you say nor do, but I have total control over my view and my work, be it artistic or something of such nature that has healed me of my hurts or fear of the unknown which may be called anxiety. I have solved my problem within me through art. If art can do this for me, just think of what it holds for you, try and if you don
t succeed forget about saying I try...I'll try...,I'll try...until you finally realized with paradoxical conclusion, why not try it anyway now, because yesterday's tomorrow is today!
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