Separating Art from Serious
Thinking about my work tonight I had a quick vision. I want to be considered an artist. At the same time I want to be considered seriously. And in my head those two things compete. I don’t know why.
When I write code, I have these little fits where I delete whole sections. Why? Because I didn’t like the way it read on the screen. It worked. It solved the problem. But I didn’t like the way it felt. The code didn’t read the way I wanted it too.
Strange right?
And I have these arguments with myself about getting something done for the sake of getting it done. I tell myself “people will take you seriously when you solve something.” But on the way to solving whatever it is, I find myself not satisfied with the work I’ve done for aesthetic artistic reasons.
Somehow I have to separate serious from art. Or make my art serious.