Saturday, November 12, 2005

   Subject of Art
One thing I have discovered about my creative pieces, whether they be manga, writing, or whatever else of the like, I always have a general... form... I want to have it posess. It's a strange one, and I simply call it touching base on both sides of the line of reality and fantasy. I want my work to be more than just a picture or painting someone might find in a museum. One that is so absolutly realistic that one thinks "Wow, that is amazing!", and they walk on. It's too realistic, and known immediatly to be fake. Same with things far too whimsical, making the viewer/read/whatever-er feel almost confused as to what on earth is trying to be conveyed, or even deciphering what some strange shape never intended to be made is. By putting my work on the nearest sides of that line between the two, it becomes work that make the person loose themselves, loose focus in their eyes and just stare. They don't know why, but they are entranced, placed into a world all it's own, looking through a window to a place that you think could never be real, but you wonder... could it? Is that a possibility?

That I think defines what makes some of the greatest artists how they are, and I've sadly only seen two other artists work to this. One is well known, Vincent Vangough(sp!). Another I don't know the name of, but her painting I saw in a store once, only once, I felt like I stared at it for eons, living in the world, when all that happened was a glance out of the car at a red light.

This is what I strive for. I want my art to be seen as more than what any fool could see. I want people to try to discover the secret meaning, the silent story, behind each 'scene' that is created, everything. Sometimes I think my creativity will be my undoing, sending my brain off course at random moments in classes and wondering to various realms of magnitude. I even wonder if that is against the laws of the Buddha and Kami, to be indulged in myself in art... It sounds so arrogant, even now.

But there is a difference. With us Buddhists, it is commonly said "Living things are numberless, and I vow to save them all." And that is what I want as well, to tell these stories, these meanings through my art so as to help and save as many as I can in this life. I will have another life to continue my hope to save all, for I seriously doubt I should ever attain enlightenment in this soul's shell. A possibilty, yes, but not probability.

But, I digress. I think i've gone on too large of a melodramatic thingy here. Aie. I think I shall shut up now.
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