My Audience

I feel I create art for one (or more) of three reasons in mind: entertainment, relating to my audience, or invoke a thought in my audience. With any piece of art it is a conversation between the artist and the viewer. Ignoring the viewer completely is like having a one man conversation. Even if the piece is about myself I am still telling an audience about myself. It would be rude not to take the audience in consideration.

In the film world David Lynch is a prime example. All of his work is symbolic and left up to interpretation. Specifically, his movie Mulholland Drive has numerous theories on the plot. Lynch, will not say what scenes are a dream, which characters are real, if the movie is in chronological order, or anything. In the director's commentary he said himself, "I do not know what the blue box and key mean." There is infact an entire website dedicated to theroies of Mulholland Drive. Which ranges from Schizophrenia, guilt of an aborted baby, a möbius strip theory, and other bizzare interrperations. When looking up the traditional theory of Mulholland Drive one can find numerous versions. Anyone that sees this movie thinks it is something completely different.

This is what I love about art. Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something completely different. Each person extracts what they want from the piece. F0r my project I want to somehow show that. I don't know exactly how I am going to do that yet, but I can't imagine it being straightforward.