In the Art World

The contemporary art world is a confusing world in comparison to the business one.  My conversation with my teacher at Chelsea during the visit to Whitechapel gallery in London was around:

What is good art and who is the judge?

In our college studio space each of the students had her own ideas and views of the world, around which unique works from found materials, paint, photography and video were produced.

The artworks were less about the physical value of the material and time that were used to produce the work, but more about our inner feeling and being which were projected through the sound, and visual projections of the work.

The business world is comforting from that sense.  What you produce at work often has immediate feedback, from which improvements can be added through learning and practice. In the art world, there is so much subjectivity involved and even if every one loves your work, it does not necessarily mean it is good.

What is good artwork anyway?

I am often drawn to artists expressing why they do what they do. Though the world needs art , as an individual being whether one artist produces work wouldn’t have made a significant difference, other than for the artist him/herself and perhaps people that the artist comes to know.

What I only know is that the each early morning that I spend in my studio helps me connected to my being and offers me the ground to grow towards the being that I want to become, and helps me connect better with what I do at work and with people that I come to meet every day.

Does one need more reason than that to remain an artist?