Working hard today here in the studio. However I’ve also really been thinking a lot about my future creative endeavors here. There are a lot of ideas I’ve been kicking around here in the last month or so, on my own and with others. I think I need to find time to meditate and just really lose myself in thoughts for a while in the next few weeks. All of these thoughts are eventually leading me back to the social responsibility that all artists should be striving for and what I can do creatively to achieve that higher ground of creativity, where meaning and importance is the underpinning of any creative endeavor I undertake. What can I bring to the table in any given project? How can I develop a unique creative voice in every aspect of my work, while maintaining integrity, quality and productivity?

Is social commentary, or spiritual commentary for that matter even, something that has been lost in mass commercial art? Or are those things just being written off as marketing and cheap advertising now? In this age of instant information and gratification, does anyone really want to REALLY THINK for themselves anymore? I keep thinking that people by and large don’t WANT to think anymore, they want to be TOLD what to think. Or failing that, I think the internet and it’s instant ways of interaction has changed the WAY people think so that now everyone thinks that it is THEIR opinion that matters. That being able to be anonymous and have a website or a blog gives them some sort of assumed authority to speak their mind, even when what they have to say is completely wrong or completely misinformed. I think that you can see a noticeable change in society in the last 10 years if you look at the way people interact with one another in real life. There is far more rudeness, far more people who think they are better than everyone else, who think THEY are right and everyone else is wrong. Is this tied to the fact that as the internet has morphed into this unfathomable monstrosity that it is today over that period of time? Or is that it has allowed anyone with an internet connection and the free time required to become whatever they want online and say whatever comes to mind, however wrong, misguided or assholish it might be? I don’t know, but I have a suspicion that I could say that I think this is exactly the case. However wouldn’t I then be just another *** posting my opinion about people I don’t even know online?

So I’m going back to pondering these things and where I want to go creatively in the future while I work today.