Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Spiral
Oh!
Barbara quotation: "What is the difference between art and entertainment? PROCESS!!!! HELLO!?!?!!?" Eventually, product falls away competely as a concern of art. It takes care of itself.
I see myself spiralling upward from my roots. The fact that my parents and my sister have no idea what I'm talking about most of the time strikes me as a testament to the fact that I've grown beyond the beautiful and wide-ranging base with which my family provided me. But as I look at it from their point of view, it becomes clear to me that they think I am spiralling too, but in a totally different direction: they see me spiralling downward or inward in a dangerous, useless and self-destructive trajectory. They don't understand what I do, or where I'm going, and they're either terrified of me, and what might happen to me (my dad), or they have written me off as borderline crazy, and they wouldn't be surprised if I landed myself in a mental institution, or as a complete recluse one day (my mother and my sister).
Lovely.
Barbara quotation: "What is the difference between art and entertainment? PROCESS!!!! HELLO!?!?!!?" Eventually, product falls away competely as a concern of art. It takes care of itself.
I see myself spiralling upward from my roots. The fact that my parents and my sister have no idea what I'm talking about most of the time strikes me as a testament to the fact that I've grown beyond the beautiful and wide-ranging base with which my family provided me. But as I look at it from their point of view, it becomes clear to me that they think I am spiralling too, but in a totally different direction: they see me spiralling downward or inward in a dangerous, useless and self-destructive trajectory. They don't understand what I do, or where I'm going, and they're either terrified of me, and what might happen to me (my dad), or they have written me off as borderline crazy, and they wouldn't be surprised if I landed myself in a mental institution, or as a complete recluse one day (my mother and my sister).
Lovely.
// posted by MSR @ 5:47 PM 
