I have always been creative. Some of my earliest memories of creating art are not the most pleasant: Bored in math class, drawing my own rendition of an ad campaign for women's undergarments and having the instructor come up behind me, catch me drawing, then 'sharing' it with the class. Later, perhaps in fourth grade; having an assignment to write a story using all of the words from the weekly vocabulary list. An afternoon of work later resulting in a short story. I handed it in, only to have the instructor accuse me of plagiarizing it.
These two instances just from my personal experiences are wonderful examples of the education system failing in its task to inspire future generations.
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Being creative is both a blessing and a curse. Creatives are often marginalized, thought of as so 'different' that their concepts and ideas are often beyond the scope of most other people. To draw and paint, to write and dream, to create music were not the skills valued in my home as I was growing up. Those skills and talents were not considered useful for a financially secure future. I suspect it can be said by most creatives, that their parents had 'higher hopes' for them than the insecurity of an artists life.
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One art which I had no skill at was the making of music. Growing up, I always loved music. We always listened to music; I grew up hearing Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets and other 1950 era musicians. Over the years, my tastes changed, the styles of music changed, the musicians changed.
But I never lost the awe I held for musicians. Not having musical talent, it never occurred to me that musicians, like visual artists and writers, were just creative people. Instead of seeing images in their heads, they heard music there. Instead of playing with words, they played with notes and chords and lyric turnings.
Recently I've been able to meet musicians who are comfortable enough about their work to talk about creating it. Their music and vision has inspired some of my own art. These musicians struggle daily with the same issues that plague artists everywhere, and have always plagued artists: how to be successful. Or when to know when success has been achieved and how to hold on to it.
Another factor for all artists is the constant concern that one must remain successful so that there is never a need to go back to working at something they do not love.
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Success is generally measured with the yardstick of financial accumulation, or in the case of musicians, grammy awards and platinum records. But what if we chose another ruler to measure success by$%: What if success could be measured by how our work inspires others to be creative$%: Or to reach across some divide and establish unity$%: If in twenty years, I am still able to afford to work at my own schedule, to not worry about supporting myself and my family, have I achieved success$%: If the walls of my office are lined with awards, but I can not touch the people who enjoy my work, have I been successful$%: If in twenty years or two thousand, I can look back at a body of work that has facilitated the work of others, can I be called successful$%:
How would the cave painters of Lascaux have felt if they could look to the future and see the work the artists of Knossos depicting the Bull dance of the court of Minos$%: And what would the Knossos artists make of Picasso and his Guernica$%: Would they have been able to recognize the direct inspiration from their own work$%: Maybe success can be measured in two ways; the way our art enables us to live and the way our art enables others to live.
It seems to me that success is truly empty unless both criteria is filled. The criteria of providing us a comfortable living doing the things we love and the building on a body of work that continues to grow even after we, as the artists, let it go and hand it off to another, or vacate this earth.
The creation of art is a gift that the artist gives to the world. Just like other gifts, the recipient is free to do with it as he or she sees fit. But the successful artist knows that if the gift is well received, it comes back to them again and again, and in ways that we can not know when we first conceive it and bring a work to it's fruition.
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