This page and video is about a young poet who uses social media to communicate his poems. He is just so energetic and passionate his video makes me smile. All of his reasons for writing poetry can be connected to art making. He argues that poetry can change your day or make you think about something else. Poetry draws your attention to what's happening in the world. He proselytizes, "As a poet, it's your job to text people pictures of the sunset. I'm not saying that strictly, but I'm saying that as a metaphor." He is vehement about using the internet to communicate his ideas to as many people as possible. He is defending his eccentric work (similar to the Gutai, he experiments and may be seen as unusual but he's questioning a conventional system of written, published poetry) as poetry in a society with limitless possibilities because of technology.
When judging his own work he asks, "Does the piece simply make a person smirk once, or is it really going to shake them, make them reconsider their life choices, or really shape their identity?" He also believes, "Once [my work] has reached them, and they've seen it, it's moved them, impacted their day or even their personality... that's the artwork i think." Art is not just about the processes of making, its effect on an audience is equally if not more important because art should be communicative and influential. Art is a package for delivering a message to lots of people.
When judging his own work he asks, "Does the piece simply make a person smirk once, or is it really going to shake them, make them reconsider their life choices, or really shape their identity?" He also believes, "Once [my work] has reached them, and they've seen it, it's moved them, impacted their day or even their personality... that's the artwork i think." Art is not just about the processes of making, its effect on an audience is equally if not more important because art should be communicative and influential. Art is a package for delivering a message to lots of people.
All of this can be applied to any type of artist today. Artists work to change people's ways of thinking, make them question, learn, appreciate something through the communication of an idea. In our society there are so many ways to do this that the definition of art becomes more and more broad.
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