Spontaneity is integral to how I make, but it is not present in the final form of what I make.
I choose the recorded medium because of its potential to reach a larger audience, its affordability of making and consumption, and its equal strength of experience when alone or together.
I walked in protest with well over a million people. In all we took two billion steps. The event was akin to a performance. And yet, over time, a single line of written words does more good.
I think about the arts that flow from the outside, to my inside. From sense to mind. A story told, a painting, music, dance. As being with someone I love or with nature, art has the potential to move me so powerfully it can transform the way I act.
Art can be a force for good: a child's poem. A force to harm: music used in a gratuitously violent film.
As with any occupation, the artist's choice is one of principle: to do something is to be something.
At times I state something as if I know, when in truth it is my belief. If I am to incite your curiosity, I must at times be forthright, and at others self-effacing. I balance my assertions with doubt in my hope that you will recognize my efforts to say what I think and feel are at the very least, honest.
I value art in this journey as a means to explore and express my passions while avoiding direct conflict.
Art is my act of hope that another might approach.
William Shakespeare
A place where one fresh thought is presented every day.
Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.