Art Life Balance is an email newsletter I publish on Substack approximately twice a month. I use it for sharing my outermost innermost thoughts about creativity, media culture, and tech — sometimes in the form of comics.
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It’s precisely the scarcity of these photos and the selective way they’ve been collected and stored that makes them interesting. In this form, they’re sources of wonder and mystery, suggesting but not revealing people’s lives beyond the frame.
Perhaps visions of becoming a thought leader mask hopes of simply being recognized as someone who has thoughts. Maybe fantasies of fame belie the basic human desire to be known and appreciated for who we are.
Most art is inherently alive with ambiguity. If we overexplain it, we risk reducing it to a collection of calculated moves, a trite statement about society. And if art is worth experiencing, such statements don’t do it justice.