 In light of my blog post yesterday about my/our creations being babies, too, I want to be clearer and more inclusive/expansive and say that my/our creations, in fact, do not need to be remotely compared to babies at all in order to be valued. There are similarities, yes, and if it helps us to look at things that way, great. BUT ALSO, we do not have to look at it that way either. We make what we make and completely separate from the idea and reality of children those things get to exist, be valued, be celebrated. I do not have to put a headband with a flower on it on a record I make in order for it to be valuable. So…continued nuances.
More importantly, though – just get in there and write and make stuff and sing if you can (I do not take lightly the tremendous privilege it is to do any of these things either). I could pick at the intellectual machinations of it all day and I could be instead writing/tickling the plastics at the Rhodes. So, off I go. XO
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Some people call their artwork their "babies". This is because they like to compare the value of an actual human baby to that of their artwork which they worked hard for. I agree that there is no need for the two to be compared. You can call your artwork whatever it is that you want to. I hope that parents would not find offense in those people who like to call their artwork their "babies" because it just means that they give a lot of value to what they have created. Leave a Reply. |
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