“Why is my work worth reading?”
This is a question I want to try nailing down for my audience. It’s not so much that I create content in the hopes to develop some form of income. I’m here because I believe in the passion I have towards creativity.
I’ve spent a large proportion of my life exploring the various amounts of art, from realistic paintings to web-development, from graphic design to animation and game design, from architecture to woodwork, from playing the piano to creating song lyrics. I have discovered incredible amounts of passions for every single piece of work I’ve dedicated my energy to, but unfortunately, most of it never lasts. But recently I’ve been able to find my sense of whereabouts in the creative industry, and I believe it’s partially writing. The reason I say writing is that I also want to dedicate my energy towards the promotion and encouragement of artists from all forms of beauty.
I plan on writing poetry, journals, anything as a way to build up my creativity and possibly get myself out there. I’m also using this as a means to develop my skills and style that could mould my identity into what I believe is the true self I’ve searched for all my life. Throughout this pathway of exploration, I will dedicate time towards workshops that could potentially benefit me, allowing for more refined content.
In regards to the promotion and encouragement of artists, I have dedicated my studies towards commerce, as well as a 16-week workshop every Saturday in web-development. I want to implement every piece of knowledge gained from these courses into my future plans. I believe my passion towards this future has been alongside me all this time but in the form of mixed feelings and confusion. Rather than just seeing and appreciating one’s art, I always felt the need to do it, whether it was watching an architecture construct a stunning house with complex plans with exact dimensions, or an animator presenting the raw emotion of happiness in the form of a young child running through a beautifully coloured setting of nature. This even occurred within the proximity of family, with my brother being the best surfer I know without that statement being even a hint of exaggeration.
At this point in my life, I have realised that I cannot be everyone at once, I cannot go down every single pathway that sparks even the slightest interest. I need to find some form of middle ground for myself and this is where my plans come in. I’m not interested in the monopoly of the industries, I’m not interested in some grand cheque every month. I’m deeply passionate for the hard workers out there, the artists who stay awake day and night dedicating themselves to projects one after the other. I’m here to find some form of means to promote them, to relieve them partially of their stress behind their creations. I am here for the broken artists, the ones lost in the maze of depression, the ones wandering around in the fog aimlessly. I am here for the artists shattered by their physical or mental illnesses. I believe I can do that because I come from a background of illness with my complex heart conditions, partial deafness, damaged lung and years of depression. I want to use my past as a means to communicate with struggling artists, with those who feel like their issues are roadblocks when they’re merely pillars of who they are.
So I think that’s enough of a detailed answer as to why my work is worth reading. I hope this will be able to give some kind of insight as to who I am and where my passion lies.