Michael Brown
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I wrote this short piece back in December, 2005.
"Do You Really Want Your Own Style?"
This brain of mine has been churning the past couple of days, and I simply have been trying to figure some things out!
Someone wrote me last night about the style that I have now and how it has developed over the past few years.
It got me to thinking about what has happened with my so called "style".
So first, the questions go for you, ..... "now what?"
If you have a certain style, ... are you sticking with it?
Do you get a bit tired of it and move on to something else after so many years.
If you have a style that others have enjoyed, ... have you noticed the interest in them to fade after so many years?
If your style is boring even you, ... but your clients still love it, ... which comes first?
Again, these are simply some things running through my head that I am trying to get a handle on.
Another question that keeps popping into my head is this.
Art buyers & clients have approached me in the past with particular needs or a certain vision, reason being is because they like my style.
So I shoot it, and they jump on it.
What did I just do?
I ask myself the question, "did I just create a piece that is really not my own vision/style?"
After all, ... it was "their" vision, ........ right?
Have I made absolutely any kind of sense at all here?
My mind is suddenly getting a bit funky on this and trying to figure out if my style is gradually changing without me really noticing.
Maybe what I really need, is to go drink a couple of Coronas and to fart a couple of times, and that would help to clear my head up!!
And yes, ..... I "AM" the father of that baby!
i need a hug!
"Do You Really Want Your Own Style?"
This brain of mine has been churning the past couple of days, and I simply have been trying to figure some things out!
Someone wrote me last night about the style that I have now and how it has developed over the past few years.
It got me to thinking about what has happened with my so called "style".
So first, the questions go for you, ..... "now what?"
If you have a certain style, ... are you sticking with it?
Do you get a bit tired of it and move on to something else after so many years.
If you have a style that others have enjoyed, ... have you noticed the interest in them to fade after so many years?
If your style is boring even you, ... but your clients still love it, ... which comes first?
Again, these are simply some things running through my head that I am trying to get a handle on.
Another question that keeps popping into my head is this.
Art buyers & clients have approached me in the past with particular needs or a certain vision, reason being is because they like my style.
So I shoot it, and they jump on it.
What did I just do?
I ask myself the question, "did I just create a piece that is really not my own vision/style?"
After all, ... it was "their" vision, ........ right?
Have I made absolutely any kind of sense at all here?
My mind is suddenly getting a bit funky on this and trying to figure out if my style is gradually changing without me really noticing.
Maybe what I really need, is to go drink a couple of Coronas and to fart a couple of times, and that would help to clear my head up!!
And yes, ..... I "AM" the father of that baby!
i need a hug!
