When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
The goal of art-making in general is communication.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.