The Artist's Escape

It’s often easier to face one’s truth from behind the veil of a story. As expressive, emotionally charged and cathartically poised the story seems to be, if the painful truth isn’t felt, we fail to face ourselves honestly, with determination and acknowledgement of where we stand. Starving artists will often hide their pain behind performances, and often hide from their pain behind performance, sometimes even dismiss the reality of the emotive performance as just that, a performance that tends to a public image and its corollaries. Artists may do anything to escape the ernest emergence of their truth through the art they create, and yet that’s all they believe themselves to be doing. Truth, the authentic and emotive expression of our being, is unavoidably a change in the world around us. All our truths are felt by the same Heart, the same pond we share on this side of the Milky Way, our Love, our Pain, these aren’t as secluded from the common Breath we all share as living beings as we’d like to believe.