I AM A CREATOR

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I AM A CREATOR ོ༘₊⁺☀︎₊⁺⋆.˚

I am constantly impressed, intrigued, and ignited by the multitude of art and evolution of thought within me and around me. We are reflections of the past, present, and future, and art is the web connecting us through time and space.
I’ve learned a few paramount things through art, and it goes a little something like this:
Art serves to inspire critical thought. It inspires society to deconstruct events, to dissect occasions. It inspires us to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Most importantly it inspires us to ask questions, rather than to live in an echo chamber.
There’s a reason why government funded public education has sought to defund art over the decades. And there’s a reason why the world’s greatest artists also existed during the time of the world’s greatest mathematicians and philosophers.
There’s a reason time is called an imaginary construct, and there’s a reason why they say you work an 8 hour day even though you’ve already lost 8 of your hours to sleep. There’s a reason they want you on the hamster wheel.
If you are always working, you are always, only, surviving. If you are not creating, you aren’t thinking. And if you are dependent on the systemic design, you’re dependent on corporate capitalism.
But there’s another way: Community >> Capitalism.
Imagine a world where everything you need was created by your community. Imagine a world where your money cycled within your community, rather than siphoned into a singular corporate monopoly.
Wouldn’t it be beautiful if we could conquer all evil by simply uplifting those around us?
It is my humble belief that we can provide for our every need by supporting our community locals. Instead of lining the pockets of CEOs, let’s work towards lining the pockets of our community members, especially the humanitarians who serve others.
Another critical component to the intentional design:
If an artist spends weeks or months developing a single piece, only for it to be consumed and judged by consumers in a matter of minutes, then a great ignorance sourced from entitlement has occurred. The intentional design by the government to remove and defund art from the classrooms has been a success: if the youth never learn about art, if they never learn to criticize art through deep conversation, if they never learn to indulge in art as a think piece, then they become insatiable and entitled unquenchable monsters. They demand the new album. They demand the new shoes. They demand the new fashion line. They demand to consume - without ever pausing to digest the extreme lengths of wrenching emotional and physical labor that the art which they crave is derived from. Truthfully, that’s what BTS clips seek to remedy where government education has failed.
What’s worse: not only does the art fail to be appreciated, the consumer simultaneously fails to recognize the artist as human.
So often have we as a society normalized celebrities belonging to us, to being above us, to providing art to us that we are seemingly entitled to. To demanding lower prices for work that took months to develop, work of which the artist poured their entire soul into perfecting. It’s more than labor. It’s a gift unto the consumer.
And even more - to lack the consideration that the artist, though gifted, is human too. The artist has feelings too. The desire to not be discarded. The desire to be appreciated. The desire to be heard.
And yet, an artists most proximal people will ignore them or fail them whilst all they asked for was support. A strange, innate human nature. To watch someone close to you struggle while filling the pockets of CEOs of corporations you’ll never meet and celebrities who will never know your name. An artist’s greatest supporters are often strangers on the internet.
Thank you to all whom support me.
-Cadence Works