General Contemplations no.1

Despite knowing exactly what I want and working hard to get to the point when I am self-sufficient and fully realised as an artist, I struggle to succeed. My biggest issue is not fixating on one medium and instead working on mulitple projects in a wide range of formats simultaneously. As they say - Jack of all trades, master of none.

I would argue that if anything, this is a big advantage. Not from the commercial perspective but artistic. Mediums are unstable: theatre merges into cinema, painting into photography, literature into everything else. With the emergence of digital technologies and AI, the boundary becomes even more washed-out. Anything can become anything else. The paradigms of artistic forms are shaped by language, which limits our understanding of the world. Even the word "Art" contains particular connotations creating unconscious boundaries that greatly restrict the scope of what art can be or what it can do.

Working in multiple mediums is not about losing interest or not understanding your role; it is about the urge to experiment, create something new and merge the unmergeable. It is about understanding the relationship of different mediums and their place in the culture. It is about innovation and an attempt to find the right voice for ideas and artistic practices.

My suggestion to myself and to whoever is reading this is as follows:

Don't be attached to labels, terms, formats and language. Artistic practices should exist outside of lanaguage and structure because innately art is about self-expression and language is only one of infinite ways to do so. Thoughts and ideas are structure-less and so should be the artistic expression - chaotic, spontaneous, and liberated from preconceptions. That is, of course, if the goal is to create something new rather than copy and recycle whatever has been created before.