None of these thoughts are original but I've been thinking them for a few days and since I don't want this blog to be only a graveyard of remembrances to people who've died, here's what's been on my mind:
Interviews with artists, writers, musicians - the whole category of people about whom you want to know more because you experienced a work you liked or lots of other people liked. And because curiosity is a collective, besetting sin.
How exhausting it must be to reveal something of oneself each time. How much easier to curate a handful of things - not untrue - to share, and share so many times that it becomes an ingredient in a recipe, a thing detachable, a fiction edited with a critical eye and separated from oneself so that the rest can remain one's own, unknowable.
Each creative person's way of giving nothing away to the people they meet, because they give far too much away of themselves in their work. Look for them there.
2 comments:
True. We all do that, though, don't we. Curate our stories?
Yes! And some are better than others at keeping that information to a minimum, while also making it seem like a lot.
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