Last week a fellow musician, who by the way has challenged himself to write a song per week, told me he'd written a song inspired by one of my paintings, posted above. He even sang it for me.
Art feeding art.
I don't know if I can adequately explain how encouraging and creatively satiating this was for my often starving artist's soul. Dare I admit that my artistic self is often like a beggar, desperate to be fed with kind words about the value of my creativity?
Does anyone else feel this way?
At the same time I'm thinking more about my need and my calling to be autonomous; to create no matter what others say. It's a mysterious paradox, this being made both for creative community and for independence.
This picture, by the way, was painted last winter, about the time I started this blog.
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