Wednesday 1 February 2012

audience? who cares about them?

for most of us would be creators the question of 'the audience' is a moot one. we don't have an audience.
in some respects that makes us lucky (albeit poor and creatively unloved).
why?
simple because right now you can do anything you want. there is nothing to stop you from being as creative or as experimental as you want. if you dp abstracts and tomorrow you feel like doing landscapes then go for it. if you are a poet and the urge omes across you to do hard core erotica then don't stop.
you can do what you want.

if you are lucky you will beccome famous and successful with your endeavours and then you are going to find yourself having to stick to the grove you have made for yourself.
only when you become a real superstar can you plot a career path that can chop and change.

the other thing about not worrying about an audience, the audience, your audience is that you do this (whatever it is) for your own benefit. you paint, sing, dance, photograph, write, weave, sculpt for your own benefit, you own enjoyment.

for most of us this is the time when we are still learning what it is we are doing. finding our voice, our style. while we are doing that we may as well have fun at it.

because in the end if we don't like what we do there is little chance anyone else is going to.

remember this - the audience starts with you.

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