Clarification

Wow so someone's actually reading whatever I put up here. Someone mentioned that the last post could be seen as derogatory toward the painting, and I can definitely see how, but I suppose I'll clear it up.

I guess I thought of the post as exactly the opposite. It was a rescinding of the original post that described painting as "hearkening back to old times" and something that I hadn't done in a while...thinking that my new work was more "meaningful." The last post I put up was saying "NO WAY! This is actually how I got started." If anything, I was saying that a piece like that could be seen as more important to how I got where I am today than anything I've done recently. I was basically saying, "no you dumbass, you'd be nowhere without this stuff, quite acting like a snob." It was saying that it was ok and even beneficial to do work that isn't the depressing, politically moving or social commentary that seems so "necessary" with art these days. It's art for art's sake and while sometimes you need to be cryptic and symbolic, other times you just need to be free of worry, apart from the "statements" and commentary, and just make a piece that is totally honest to its real goal. To make you feel better.

It was basically saying that I was completely and utterly wrong in my original assessment. I'd be a shitty artist without the work I did years ago. I'd be a pretentious snob if I felt everything I did needed to be viewed as a "manifesto." I need to embrace the occasional clarity, relaxation and pure enjoyment of making something beautiful and stress free and this painting was one of those moments.

So ya...i understand it could have been seen as derogatory and maybe I worded parts of it poorly, but I really was trying to say that the beauty in this piece is it's freedom from the pensive mumbo-jumbo of so much art around currently.

It's a beautiful piece for the sake of making the world more beautiful and I think that's as valiant and meaningful as anything any artist can claim to do.