I heard a great point that I have almost forgotten. It was
something like this:
"Social media is not structured so
that people could wonder about things".
I know, this doesn't sound very insightful, and I am sorry to
have just this fragment, but it is important.
It's like when you are in the creative state, it will collapse if
you have someone else, or yourself, criticise every step you take.
It's the difference between the two sides of the brain. You
have the side that sort of floats around and you have the side
that pins stuff down. If you are always in that "pin shit down"
state, you are basically forgetting that you even have that other
side. This is what the social media does.
That is the frustrating part, at least for myself. You are just
never constructing anything new when you are there. And also,
the fact of being there makes you less likely to construct
anything "on your free time" since you are more in the rut of
criticising stuff. Creativity really takes time. You have to sort
of descent into this other space. If you keep hitting that
adrenaline button, there is no way you will be able to get down
there. Well, this is my experience.
Lately, I've been working on a webpage for random "art" stuff.
I find that by not giving myself any real technical or artistic
limits I have been quite productive almost automatically. This
sort of limitless style is really hard when you are all the time
connected to your critics. I think it must be fucking up art
really badly. Only the people with the thickest skins will be
able to do it in the future. I don't think that creativity and
thick skin go together that often.
