Do you pay attention to trends in the art world? That is something that I used to do when I was younger. I used to observe what was going on and try to fit my work into it but not anymore. Actually, I am strongly against it now.
I do believe that everyone can relate to art. If they can’t, that is probably because their past has taught them out of their creativity and constrained them in how they express themselves, how they think and so on.
In my personal experience, I have I think it is very important to look, found out with time that to observe, listen and read not just to connect with other artists work, I keep up - to - date but to stimulate need to unlearn and forget about one’s mind by collecting many things I experienced in the knowledge, memories and past. On the other hand, artwork, experiences. But when it comes to as I mentioned earlier, has to be making my work, I turn away from good enough to ‘touch’ people. I these experiences and work think that this is one of the main without thinking about them. reasons why some artworks are distinguished from others and why Obviously, these experiences are some artists get acclaimed. there in the back of my mind, but I do not let them condition me in the These artists produce work that making of my work. It is like being people of most backgrounds can a sponge that absorbs everything, relate to, hence why art can be a but then I let my subconscious do universal language. This does not the squeezing. I do not force it in mean that everyone has the same any way. If I think too much about understanding of a particular what is happening outside, then artwork. that would make me distant from ‘myself ’, and my work would suffer. Every individual comes with their own personal baggage, and that is Do you think that art is a the basis on which their own universal language that anyone understanding of the artwork is can relate to some degree? What built upon. Yet, we are all human, has your personal experience and our minds function very been? similarly. 29