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The Limelight and the Creative Comfort Zone
Having been a working artist all my adult life, I learned early to respect and appreciate media type events like television news spots and newspaper interviews such as the one just published in the Savannah News Press’ at the following link: http://savannahnow.com/node/428917 where there awaits a wonderful article by Joel Weickgenant about one city's gift to the arts.
However, although I recognize the necessity and applaud the marvels of modern media, I’m not always at ease painting while sitting in the hot seat. In fact, sometimes I have to laugh at myself about how squeamish I
can become over that divide between the necessities of the limelight and my personal creative comfort zone.
The limelight is like a cell phone connected to the CEOs of the marketplace, so… professionally speaking I’m not at liberty to ignore it when it rings, chimes, vibrates or raps naughty rhymes to get my attention. But it’s not an organic or even psychic part of the creative comfort zone where I reach for understandings of what it means to journey through this world with what we call a soul and to live that journey in such a way that it produces meaningful work. Which for me means art that says to a viewer whatever it is supposed to. For some artists it does function in that manner.
Stepping outside that creative comfort zone into the lights of publicity can be, to borrow a friend’s word, “disconcerting.” The good thing is that I’m learning, after all these grown up years of mine, to look at it
more as connecting and communicating more with other souls on whatever their journey may be and sharing stories about the wonder of it all. That makes it a real good thing.
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