For many artists, email is a mixed blessing. Easily addictive yet highly connective, it works best for us as an addition to our art rather than as a substitute for it. The danger of email is that in our hunger for connection, we pour out our creative energies into a barrage of letters instead of onto the easel or page. The advantage of email and use of the Internet as a whole is that it cuts through feelings of intense isolation, connecting us to like-minded souls even when we are geographically far-flung. Make no mistake: Art can take us to distant place, to caves buried deep within the psyche, or the wide expanses of distant space. If a reader loses all sense of time when entering the world, say of J.K. Rowling, how much more hypnotic must that world be for its maker? Artists require careful grounding. We must remember to eat, sleep, to reach out an touch someone, if only electronically. It is all too easy for an artist to abandon life as the rest of the world knows it, to live on a different planet while right in our midst. Art is powerful. -Julia Cameron, The Sound of Paper
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:09:40 +0000
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