The question of ownership- of who truly possesses art- has always lived at the center of my work. Does the artwork belong to the hand that shapes it, or to the earth that offered the pigment, or the air that settled it into being? Does it belong to the muse who sparked the vision, or to the witness whose gaze completes it?
There was a time when art was born from the collective, made in communion, for the community. But even then, patrons laid claim to authorship while invisible hands labored in the shadows. The muse, too, historically the heartbeat of creation, has been reduced to an object of desire, stripped of agency and devotion. She has been consumed rather than worshipped.
I am constantly asking: What if the muse is not an object but a co-author?
What if the art is not a product but a shared field of aliveness?
As an artist, I feel increasingly called toward a communal practice, one that refuses to sever art from its origins and instead honours every force that participates in the making. My work is becoming less about possession and more about participation, less about claiming and more about offering.
I am imagining shared spaces where art is not a commodity first but a conversation , a space where we learn to witness one another with reverence, where inspiration circulates freely, where beauty is something we build together rather than compete to own.
In that world, the question changes.
Art does not belong to anyone, we belong to it. 🩵✨
Thank you for this beautiful work as always my beloved ❤️🔥
Artists certainly channel transcendent principles, but they do so with their unique gifts of talent they had to both possess and refine. Not everyone can be a good artist, let alone an influential one, and that is in part due to the artist himself. That deserves acknowledgement.
They have also always been compensated in some way, or else were funded by a wealthy patron (including religion), or could do it for free because they were possessed of wealth themselves. The artisan has been placing marks on his work for centuries, regardless of economic system or technology...and before that, it was the guild who claimed credit.
That is an interesting angle. What was his reasoning for seeing that the gods were "superseded by the Titans", what occurred to make that happen? Did he say? I would love to look into that very interesting claim.
The question of ownership- of who truly possesses art- has always lived at the center of my work. Does the artwork belong to the hand that shapes it, or to the earth that offered the pigment, or the air that settled it into being? Does it belong to the muse who sparked the vision, or to the witness whose gaze completes it?
There was a time when art was born from the collective, made in communion, for the community. But even then, patrons laid claim to authorship while invisible hands labored in the shadows. The muse, too, historically the heartbeat of creation, has been reduced to an object of desire, stripped of agency and devotion. She has been consumed rather than worshipped.
I am constantly asking: What if the muse is not an object but a co-author?
What if the art is not a product but a shared field of aliveness?
As an artist, I feel increasingly called toward a communal practice, one that refuses to sever art from its origins and instead honours every force that participates in the making. My work is becoming less about possession and more about participation, less about claiming and more about offering.
I am imagining shared spaces where art is not a commodity first but a conversation , a space where we learn to witness one another with reverence, where inspiration circulates freely, where beauty is something we build together rather than compete to own.
In that world, the question changes.
Art does not belong to anyone, we belong to it. 🩵✨
Thank you for this beautiful work as always my beloved ❤️🔥
Art does not belong to anyone. We belong to it.
Well said sister. Well said. ❤️
Brother, this is marvelous! What an intro! What a piece!!
All praise goes you know where ;)
Ameen fam!
But it IS your art.
Artists certainly channel transcendent principles, but they do so with their unique gifts of talent they had to both possess and refine. Not everyone can be a good artist, let alone an influential one, and that is in part due to the artist himself. That deserves acknowledgement.
They have also always been compensated in some way, or else were funded by a wealthy patron (including religion), or could do it for free because they were possessed of wealth themselves. The artisan has been placing marks on his work for centuries, regardless of economic system or technology...and before that, it was the guild who claimed credit.
That is an interesting angle. What was his reasoning for seeing that the gods were "superseded by the Titans", what occurred to make that happen? Did he say? I would love to look into that very interesting claim.