The reason artists, actors and other empaths are often misunderstood and thought of as crazy is because we go all the way, push the envelope so hard to meet you in full emotion. Out there on that horizon, if this giving up of self and protection is not met and balanced or accompanied with some type of self-protective system (e.g., navigation) we crash and burn. Without the people continually sacrificing themselves for us in these ways, how do our understanding and navigation of ourselves work? Who has not been liberated, inspired and instructed by an artist? Everything around you from the logo on the letterhead to the oscar nominated film to the color and dashboard of your car is art, is a trigger of your experience. Philip Seymour Hoffman went down, Van Gough went down, Marilyn Monroe went down giving us something very precious. Navigation is the protective suit I built for myself and those I love like Akira, Jonathan, Brian and so forth, anyone I help. They add and subtract to make the method work for them and others. Navigation is instead of booze pills and therapy. To be an artist is a hardcore existence. You are wide open, on the horizon. Mike Eisner, former head of Disney, said he went as a child with his father to see Death of A Salesman, and it changed their lives. It created a drastic shift. I went to America largely because of the image of James Dean, not even having seen the films. This actor, this man, this artist had the power to drive me to leave EVERYTHING and go to the horizon. Who teaches this in art school or anywhere else? I do. I am an artist and navigator because as an artist there was not enough protection. The real artist is an extreme role, a great sacrifice of self for self, culture, nature everything. When Heath Ledger died I lived a few blocks away and I mourned him like a brother, like a star. What a man. The artist moves in all worlds.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:10:09 +0000
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