"THE TWO most important DAYS IN YOUR LIFE ARE the day YOU WERE born AND the day YOU FIND OUT why." -mark twain.
Art is the exposition of the soul. The raw rendering of a spirit echoing the repression or freedom it feels in relation or correlation to anything or anyone. This honesty can, unfortunately, be shrouded or even stopped, at times, by many different things. The greatest of which, ironically, comes from within ourselves and is, in itself, art. It is the form of art that can be used most powerfully to create that often stops us from the art of creation. It is the art of fear.
Fear rears its head in many forms; the most common or recognizable of which is negative. Everyone experiences, from time to time, the results of this dissenting face of fear -- sometimes to a crippling level. I have experienced it in relation to the building of my company, Pinstripe Productions. More directly, I have had its oppression at my heels working on projects for clients. Specifically, I have felt its teeth in the creation of an advertisement video for a corporate client.
Expectations. The raw fear of not living up to expectations of this juggernaut was terrifying to me. Requests of perfection and assumptions of skill-sets I did not posses were packaged together with a bow of ill-perceived acceptance. The magnitude of what I had gotten myself into - a budgeted advertisement video for a large corporate client - something I had never been paid to do before - was not only a possibility, but a reality. A reality that was now not knocking, but kicking down my front door and starring me down. It seemed fixated on the luminous impossibility of my ability to complete what I myself had jumped into.
The situation sat thick over my head until I remembered something very, very important. Fear is an emotion and, like all emotion, can and should be used positively. Fear, used positively, is nothing more than a healthy respect for something one has attributed power or purpose towards. I felt tension and stress because I understood the magnitude and capacity of the job I had undertook. I also believe, however, that man is not allowed to go through anything he can not handle. The depths of ones depravity or length of ones trial is directly proportional to the width of ones passion and the height of ones desire. This trial laid before me was, ultimately, nothing more than an opportunity in which I had the ability to dictate a reaction - positive or negative.
Fear is nothing more than emotion; misplace energy, perhaps. I would be one, however, to beg the question that, possibly, there is a reason we feel this and that, perhaps, we are to use it positively. Art is a response to a circumstance, making fear, in all honesty, a form of art. The irony is that, more often than not, we miss out on the potential for success through fear and, instead, attempt to write off fear as simply negative energy. The ability to harness fear to assist you in a creative capacity can and will forever change not only your ability to create, but your creations as a whole.
Art is the exposition of the soul. The raw rendering of a spirit echoing the repression or freedom it feels in relation or correlation to anything or anyone. This honesty can, unfortunately, be shrouded or even stopped, at times, by many different things. The greatest of which, ironically, comes from within ourselves and is, in itself, art. It is the form of art that can be used most powerfully to create that often stops us from the art of creation. It is the art of fear.
Fear rears its head in many forms; the most common or recognizable of which is negative. Everyone experiences, from time to time, the results of this dissenting face of fear -- sometimes to a crippling level. I have experienced it in relation to the building of my company, Pinstripe Productions. More directly, I have had its oppression at my heels working on projects for clients. Specifically, I have felt its teeth in the creation of an advertisement video for a corporate client.
Expectations. The raw fear of not living up to expectations of this juggernaut was terrifying to me. Requests of perfection and assumptions of skill-sets I did not posses were packaged together with a bow of ill-perceived acceptance. The magnitude of what I had gotten myself into - a budgeted advertisement video for a large corporate client - something I had never been paid to do before - was not only a possibility, but a reality. A reality that was now not knocking, but kicking down my front door and starring me down. It seemed fixated on the luminous impossibility of my ability to complete what I myself had jumped into.
The situation sat thick over my head until I remembered something very, very important. Fear is an emotion and, like all emotion, can and should be used positively. Fear, used positively, is nothing more than a healthy respect for something one has attributed power or purpose towards. I felt tension and stress because I understood the magnitude and capacity of the job I had undertook. I also believe, however, that man is not allowed to go through anything he can not handle. The depths of ones depravity or length of ones trial is directly proportional to the width of ones passion and the height of ones desire. This trial laid before me was, ultimately, nothing more than an opportunity in which I had the ability to dictate a reaction - positive or negative.
Fear is nothing more than emotion; misplace energy, perhaps. I would be one, however, to beg the question that, possibly, there is a reason we feel this and that, perhaps, we are to use it positively. Art is a response to a circumstance, making fear, in all honesty, a form of art. The irony is that, more often than not, we miss out on the potential for success through fear and, instead, attempt to write off fear as simply negative energy. The ability to harness fear to assist you in a creative capacity can and will forever change not only your ability to create, but your creations as a whole.
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