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Do You Make Art As An Adult?

purelambdaphi

Sometimes I feel surreptitiously motivated to produce art.

I often class art as one of my SI's, but I mostly only appreciate art.
Historically, I've felt demotivated about making things in general likely because I feel like there being a social reward to doing so is in some way required in order for me to be productive in this way.
I frequently fantasize about having had a clos-knit art friends while growing up so we would show each other our OC's, collaborate on some sort of shared world, talk about narratives, etc.
Lurking on DeviantArt, YT, Twitter, etc. helps me vicariously live that fantasy by assuming the artists posting stuff there have lives of that kind.

Aside from the lack of a social component to the creative process, the idea of being a unemployed, not college-educated, friendless, likely futureless adult causes me to feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I try creating art.
Do you feel somehow like that too, or can relate to anything in my exposition?

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  • An interesting post.

    What is art?  I'm a photographer and I sometimes wonder whether any of my work could be called 'art'.

    What is the purpose of art?  You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I suspect that for most of us the creative process is therapeutic in itself even if your work isn't purchased, seen or appreciated by others (but that makes it more worthwhile).

    There are lots of creative people on this forum (artists?) and here is the second thread I created for them.

    The original had tons of posts but was sadly deleted:

     RE: The new Forum Creative Space 

    purelambdaphi said:
    the idea of being a unemployed, not college-educated, friendless, likely futureless adult causes me to feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I try creating art

    Van Gogh?

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  • An interesting post.

    What is art?  I'm a photographer and I sometimes wonder whether any of my work could be called 'art'.

    What is the purpose of art?  You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I suspect that for most of us the creative process is therapeutic in itself even if your work isn't purchased, seen or appreciated by others (but that makes it more worthwhile).

    There are lots of creative people on this forum (artists?) and here is the second thread I created for them.

    The original had tons of posts but was sadly deleted:

     RE: The new Forum Creative Space 

    purelambdaphi said:
    the idea of being a unemployed, not college-educated, friendless, likely futureless adult causes me to feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I try creating art

    Van Gogh?

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  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    What is art?

    It is not clear to me what kind of "is" you're employing here.
    If it's an is of definition, then just undergird the term "art" with your preferred definition.
    My illocutionary in this post wasn't supposed to be especially assertoric.

    Unknown said:
    What is the purpose of art?

    I don't have a view on that.

    Unknown said:
    You say that you could be wasting your time, but then does there have to be a destination, or can it just be the 'journey'.

    I said I'm caused to feel like I'm wasting my time.

    On a somewhat related note: I think I've chanced my way into finding value in art in a way probably analogous to what you're talking about.
    However, for me it's not about the journey in general, but a specific aspect of it -- one that involves creating fictional people so I can vicariously socialize and experience new things or etc.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Photography can definitely be art. Of course, a lot of photography these days is more what you might call record making (e.g. selfies to prove that you’ve visited the Eiffel Tower). I think one of the things that distinguishes art photography from record making is the intent (compulsion?) to show the world differently.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    I'm not great but art for me has in my past been in the background. Focusing on colours, shapes and combinations that I find pleasing have helped distract me when I've been scared or stressed and given me pleasure.  Now sometimes my paintings seem acceptable to some others and that gives confidence, but I think art comes from the inside, a kind of itch. I think being creative, however it turns out, however we judge it, is a positive activity and the more we do the better the connection can be between our inner selves and the outside world.