For me or for you?
September 6th, 2006I’m in the middle of doing a spread in my Sri Lanka AB, and part of the way through it asked my Beloved what he thought of it, that was my first mistake. My second mistake was gettng mad because he couldn’t read what I had stamped on it, and yelling at him, lots, for not ‘getting’ the concept of what I was doing.
This eventually led to a conversation about who I make my art for. My response was that I make it for myself but that it helps if the people looking at it knew what it was, or what it meant. Sometimes I feel like I need to explain my art to people, it feels important to me that they ‘get it’. But why? Does it mean that because I seek others’ approval, I’m actually making art for other people rather than myself? Surely what I’m trying to do is to express myself in some way, not get other people to ‘like’ what I do? I’m all confused now 
