The Artist’s Solitude
The Artist’s Solitude: Creating One’s Own World
“Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist”
THIS IS A THREAD OF THOUGHTS - NEWER ENTRIES WILL BE AT THE TOP
THE AMNIOTIC EMBRACE
Sep 8, 2021
I believe water could have the same connecting and isolating qualities as a camera lens. This is a poem I wrote a while back after shooting a short underwater video.
”Like twins sharing the protection of their mother’s womb, our naked bodies embraced at a distance through the amniotic blue waters of our manmade sheltering space. Isolated and protected from the world we danced to the rhythm of our souls, to the beat of our hearts, free, careless and in perfect union. We shared innocence, cold, discovery, discomfort but most of all the beauty of our hearts. Once separated by the world outside, I was left alone, incomplete and empty. I yearned for your warmth, your touch, your heartbeat and the comforting feeling of our amniotic embrace”.
STAGE FRIGHT
Sep 8, 2021
The "illusion" of being alone and intimately connected with each one of the viewers was the first thing that caught my attention and ignited my interest in this new Virtual Theater language. The quality of this "connection" has been something I've been exploring and trying to create in live theater for as long as I can remember but, what are the trade-offs? Even if we are successful in making the virtual audience feel they are "alone" and only "connected" with us (the performers) ... how about on our end?
When devising Becoming A Rose, my first virtual theater production, I wanted to really experiment with this "intimacy" feeling so I decided to make this one-man-show a real one-man-show ... meaning: no crew or audience in the space where I was performing and streaming the show from. Just before I went live for the first show I made a very unexpected discovery: I was experiencing "stage fright" and fear was making solitude feel more like loneliness ... the very same feeling I was trying to avoid by establishing this intimate connection in the first place but, this post is not about me complaining but about me sharing with you my findings during this fascinating experiment and my personal views on the artist's solitude and how this is directly linked to the artist's courage to create his/her "own" world.
TO BE CONTINUED
“To create one’s own world takes courage”
