I listened for two hours to three prominent film composers in conversation. They described their work as having to create against the clock, compromise, deal with unreasonable and inarticulate people, and coping with feelings of uncertainty and rejection. I was struck by the similarity of their experiences with those of commercial designers I have known.
When the creative act is little more than craft and local politics, art is impaired.
I wrote poetry, painted, and composed as a child. Whether these creations were any good in the eyes of others was of no concern. Perhaps this was in part as a result of my being placed into care as an infant at the age of eight months old. I had not the slightest idea why my life was so precarious, but later, through art, music, and words, I had the means to find my voice in the chaos.
Art is personal. Its function is to discover and express. Its purpose is to be absorbed and to absorb.
My art, music and words have little or no impact on my immediate family. When I share my work it does not move them past a few short words. 'I like it' is the most that is said. It has always been this way.
When people do not experience the world as I, whether strangers or those I care for, there is no fault. We see things differently. We return only to those things we love. Love cannot be forced, it is not persuaded, we feel or we do not. This sadness, my difference with those close, drives me to express.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.