Recently went to this exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I found it to be incredibly inspirational. These are people who had to create, who were driven to create. Their circumstances (uneducated or rural or sometimes insane or sometimes all of the above) really didn’t allow them to think about commercial success. They were not stopped by lack of materials. They just did art. Whenever they could. On whatever material they could obtain. In whatever medium they could use. All the time.
The inspirational part is precisely that. This exhibit inspired me to create. Just fucking kick it in the head and start writing again. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in online shit, Twitter threads about how to self-promote, about how to get published, it’s so easy to forget that the point is to create. For me, the point is put the words on the page. And this exhibit reminded me of that essential fact.
