The unanswered artist

There’s something very isolating about entertainment.  I see closeups of the expression on an actor’s face, and I hear a singer’s voice like he’s next to me.  It seems so intimate, but I never meet either. 

And they’ll never know me.  Do the artists feel that isolation too, I wonder?  Do they wonder if they’ve touched someone, or do they happily release their creations into the void?  Or do performers simply have a deep sense of being always heard, a faith in their (absent) audience? 

Today there seems something unutterably sad about the one-way communication of our entertainment.  Something so deficient about communication that never leads to intimacy. 

 

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November 20, 2007

as a former performer (non-vocal) often you feel you are communicating with the music itself… or just expressing yourself. kind of like graffiti-ing. it’s the same situation a visual artist finds themself in. casting their creation to the world and hoping it is understood/accepted.

November 21, 2007

i believe there’s a universal communication. usually a performer receives reviews, applause, some kind of feedback about their work. and we get to experience something for ourselves. it’s kind of give and take in a weird dislocated way.