do you only feel like a real artist when someone's watching you work?
weird thing i noticed about myself. i can paint alone in my flat for six hours and feel like im wasting my life. but the second someone walks past the window and slows down to look, suddenly im an Artist with a capital A, posture fixed, very serious about the brush. is it just me or is the whole thing a bit of a performance and we just don't admit it
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it definitely feels like it sometimes, but it also feels wrong to feel that way, I do wish that people would not look for a performance and just appreciate the art
i don't think it's wrong to notice it though. like the performance is there whether we want it or not, the noticing is just being honest about it. and yeah i get what you mean about wishing people would just see the work and not the act of making it... but i think for me part of the problem might be that i don't fully trust the work on its own yet. so when someone watches i borrow their attention like it proves something.
ahhh i see what you mean
yeah 🙃 it's just... i catch myself doing it and then i feel embarrassed, like who am i performing for? the window guy? a pigeon? it's so silly. but then i also think maybe that's just how it works for some of us, we need the imaginary audience to take ourselves seriously
Valid, whats a little art without a pigeon audience 😁😁