ethical art consumption and production
/As consumers and producers of art coexist, we have to have a collective consciousness when making our way through life and emotions that happen. When an artist has emotions vs when a fanbase has emotions, there is a collective grey area in between that allows for extreme exaggeration. There is no way to know if things were miscommunicated in this time as Venturing was knowingly a willing side project, and this new switch could've been misinterpreted as having been that the entire way through. We also have to remember that this explicitly says the PUBLICIST wrote this. To expand on what I mean by the exaggeration of emotion, I mean that when artists release something from their identity into a social construct, it is able to be interpreted in any way by anyone. This means that a fanbase will take away their own interpretation from the matter that will likely have constant dissonance or an exaggerated outcome. From the artists side, they will see the outcome that comes from this, which will feel mostly external, and will think of the response in an incomprehensibly exaggerated way as well. This is a mutual and collected response that shows the reason why trying to find personal emotions in a parasocial context, or in a social media context, will lead to problems and discourse such as this. I believe, as artists, that there should be a constant disconnect from your identity to your work. As artists, you should have a constant consciousness that your art will be misinterpreted when its socialized. Your passion and process are what ultimately matters, and your experience that you provide in your art will only be known by you. As artists, you should break away from expectation or need to have response from a consumer, and you should instead focus on allowing your art to show your experience to the people you want to see it. This does NOT mean to not place your art in a capitalist standard, as that is where we live and where we need to forcefully grow in, but instead this means to be aware of your placement of emotions in a place that is constantly trying to commodify and place expectations onto your emotions. As consumers of art, to have a purer appreciation, learn and accept that you will never understand the true experience that art provides, but tie it to your own experience that is singular to you and collect as much as you can that you can express as your true emotions to figure out what truly makes your identity "you". THAT'S ALL!
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