Runtime: 15 minutes Revisited my "5 Hands" (Telemakus, Sumin, Swarvy) Flip, last week and again last night.
I went in with the intention of building and refining to finalize, but I came to the emotional turmoil that strikes anytime the thought of polish, refinement, and finality eventually becomes the step of the process.
What is the actual point?
I mean, being in the process itself serves my intentions fully. So where is the friction?
The friction is wisdom, experience and data.
If a tree falls in the forest....you know the old saying.
but what feels worse? Not being see or heard because no one is around to witness the event? or going out of your way to show up in all the places to be seen or heard, and having the consistent data that even that is no longer effective.
There are much more critical events happening right now, kind of all at once that should have my full attention, but what if you have the data to prove even that time and energy and effort is proven to be all in va(e)in?
Everyone seems to be having convos about culture, but near parallel to how social media stole the voice and valor of those with a legacy of credible experience that's desperately needed, and now people (or bots) without wisdom and experience somehow got the megaphone boost.
This was already the #1 issue that threatened culture care. The Distribution of information and media, the ownership of attention.
Without this resolved, building anything that doesn't lend to solving it ultimately will still feel the effects of these broken systems.
If you build a thing that fall's in a forest did it really happen?
Impact has been stolen and gamified.
Now add A.I. on top of this already grim reality.
Thankfully I personally enjoy the actual process of playing with the legos still.
but i'm looking around and i'm not sure even this still has value or impact (externally)
So refinement, polish, finality....
I can't help have trauma tied to what happens after the process in terms of expectations for artist.
The world feels very topsy turvy the past few years...
and I don't have enough contrary or compelling data to combat what i'm ultimately experiencing and observing.
I wish I peaced out while I had peace of heart and mind.
I don't think the once respected and understood space and distance the worlds "Tragic Artists" were able to keep while they poured their pain into creative expression that had the power to resonate and impact hits the same when those same artists are now trapped in conditions where the actual "art" itself has no chance of connecting or impacting without showing up and being forced to participate in systems that do not align with nor feel welcoming to them.
TDLR, Enjoy the shared process while it's still being shared. I know i'm personally beyond expression of any kind into a void.
Future training data without present meaningful connection is no longer a trade off I will invest or keep contributing to.
Peace to humans in resonance reading this in 3035, huddled underground keeping culture alive like Edgar Friendly... I'm sorry for the future you got born into. <3
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