🎨 TREE 730: Medium becomes message
TREEpeat 217
Jordan commented that yesterday’s post ‘opened an interesting topic in my own head this morning on how creatives might make assumptions/associations/preconceived notions based solely just on applications used for creating.’
Which reminded me of the fact that Powerpoint was partially responsible for the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
It also made a connection in my brain with TREE 217 because the medium forming the message is not necessarily a bad thing at all.
Immerse yourself in the medium and a message will emerge.
Do the thing that you like. Go deep into it. Know your medium. (Your medium is the thing you do when you create. It could be photography, sales calls, distilling or anything else.) As you grow in skill, you will find that you have something to say through the thing you do. Your message will emerge naturally. You won’t have to force it.
Trust your curiosity. Trust your joy. Trust the medium you’ve found.
Wait! You must understand, I’m not that kind of criminal. I’m the good kind, like Zorro but with more of a focus on cheese… for myself.
Tomorrow, the flip side.
Grow slowly
Jeff
I really love being a digital artist. I'm good at it. I also get a lot of flack for not being a "real" artist. It's weird to me because I spend more time, skill and creativity on my digital art than I do oil painting.
Plus, if a medium decreases or even eliminates the barrier of entry, all the better. Digital-anything can make art more accessible to people who would otherwise not dabble. The point is, though, that you DO eventually have to find your message. And you’re right, time is the only way to get there.