Inspired by RB’s blog, here is my answer as to whether being told “no” or ignored altogether scares me the most.
I’m used to both. Sometimes the latter is more comfortable because then I’m free to be completely honest without worrying about who’s paying attention to me. I can scream into the void all I want, no one will hear. This is also why I fundamentally disagree with another blog post I read saying your art is only art when another person views it; I personally think art is art even if no one else knows it exists. To be even more controversial because I’m me, I’d say the art you don’t know exists is a thousand times more beautiful than what you know does ;p
But I was also praised by a long-time Internet friend for not being afraid to dream big, and you can definitely see that with my bigger projects like Petal or Finding Elpis. A certain exec even as he passed on the latter said the imagination was “undeniable,” which reminds me again of my friend’s praise. In fact so big is my imagination that I’m doing everything I can to resist the urge to canon-weld both Petal and Finding Elpis, to make two already big worlds into one gigantic world… incidentally this is even an arc sentiment in Petal, “what’s bigger than the universe?”…
Lol just in case someone does read this post and proves I’m not alone in the universe of my own making… I pose you this very apropos question for this lounge; what IS bigger than the universe?
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I agree with you about art, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh.
Combining story worlds might be the right thing for some projects. I did it with three unfinished scripts before. I combined them into one feature script.
What's bigger than the universe? The multiverse in a story?
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Thanks Maurice Vaughan, and I agree, some small ideas can become something great when merged into one. I reworked some very small ideas into bigger ideas to turn them into shows-within-a-show.
As for your question, sure, but also generally haha, even literally. I have an answer but I wanna know what yours is.
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Banafsheh Esmailzadeh I may be the one who you are referring to who said that art is only art when another person views it. So let me clarify that statement. The quasi-philosophical question people used to ask: "If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?" The actual answer to that is, NO. Sound occurs only when vibrations are received; if they are created and there is no receiver, there is no sound. Likewise with art. What you make is your personal expression. But art is a participatory experience. Even a painting evokes an experience, a moment of communication between artist and viewer. So even a painting as "art" is not static. You may call your hidden expression art if you want. But if no one sees it, it does not communicate anything, and there is no participation, so, IMO, no art. "Art is in the eye of the beholder" requires a viewer. Even if, having created it, that viewer is only you, so when you consider that hidden expression art because you see it or think about it - you are the viewer. Does that make sense? Now, my previous comments were possibly relating to the difference between art and propaganda, as the two are quite different. Art by definition is subject to the interpretation, and the evolving interpretation, of the viewer, propaganda an unambiguous statement that tells the viewer what to think. But that's another subject...
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You're welcome, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh. That's great. You're right. I've put short scripts together and made an anthology feature script.
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Shadow Dragu-Mihai I think it was someone else’s blog, actually, but nonetheless your explanation makes sense and thanks for sharing it. I’m a firm believer that art is subjective and for me personally it’s much closer to religion than an action, hence my belief that there’s even more beautiful and meaningful art that we can’t even conceive of, that at best we can try our entire lives to capture and create. But ultimately that’s just my opinion lol
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I’m actually thinking of doing a similar thing with one of Finding Elpis’s side stories myself, Maurice Vaughan. There’s so many character backstories and whatnot I just don’t have room to get into in the main story that works perfectly as an anthology, and even just thematically taking the whole work into account. “More than the sum of its parts,” as the saying goes.