Every creative person needs their own personal creative mission statement—an exploration of their artistic psyche so profound (and so pretentious), nobody can even come close to understanding it.
I used to rely on the pithy “Wretched, yet impertinent” as my creative vision statement, but may update it now that I’ve visited the Arty Bollocks Generator, which generates some seriously high class gibberish like:
My work explores the relationship between the body and midlife subcultures.
With influences as diverse as Blake and John Cage, new combinations are crafted from both explicit and implicit layers.
Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the mind. What starts out as hope soon becomes corroded into a tragedy of temptation, leaving only a sense of chaos and the prospect of a new synthesis.
As shifting forms become frozen through emergent and personal practice, the viewer is left with a statement of the limits of our condition.
If you don’t immediately fall in love with “leaving only a sense of chaos and the prospect of a new synthesis” then you’re simply not an artist.
Finally, automated pretension...
Keep visioning, Tom Chandler.
My kind of website. My style of thinking…
Don’t spend too long there, or you’ll be corroded by the tragedy of temptation…