If no one sees your art, is it still art?
<p>I received <a href="https://medium.com/@viam_/how-to-cope-when-your-writing-have-0-views-be7fe9fd93e8" rel="noopener">this recommendation</a> on Medium today, which reminded me of both my current journey in writing and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/16/deliberately-obscure-hidden-secret-public-art" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this Guardian article</a> about hidden art. Specifically, this sentence from the Medium article:</p>
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<p>The resonance of an article belongs solely to the readers.</p>
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<p>When I was in art school, one of the things we were taught about is how Art is made of three things: the Artwork itself, the Artist, and the Audience. Without all three Art does not truly exist. Most people think just the process of making and declaring something as art is enough to make it Art. In some sense it is, but it also isn’t.</p>
<p>If I write a poem in my journal and never shared it with anyone, that’s just my thoughts. If I paint a beautiful landscape then sealed it away in an attic, that’s just paint on a wall. If I take photos with my analog camera and never developed them, it’s just chemicals sitting on a film. They all probably satisfied something for the creator, but that’s all it is. It’s not Art in the way that many of us think is Art.</p>
<p>But when those things are discovered, it can then becomes Art. Emily Dickinson’s poems were only truly appreciated after her death and her sister discovered her unpublished writings hidden away. <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vivian-maier-photographer-180980267/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A nanny with a camera</a> took thousands of photos, but no one took an interest until months after her death and a collector published her photos on Flickr.</p>
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