A Series Of Questions.

This blog surrounds a series of questions that an emerging artist may encounter during their development. All of these answers will change and evolve over the time of the artist’s career. Nothing is ever set in stone.

QUESTION ONE

Is dreaming dangerous?

Is it possible to have too many dreams or ambitions? I always find myself at a creative crossroads. As an emerging multidisciplinary artist, I feel lost from time to time on what I should focus on.

If you look at the majority of successful artists in our society, they fell in love with one art form and worked their entire life to perfect it. So logically, that is the way to approach being successful, right?

So, I took a look at my life and what I do – what I love. I love training, staying busy with projects, but those projects jump across so many different disciplines. Every day I try to sing, dance, research and create clown shows and model, and I really need to work on Shakespeare again soon… But is that too many things? Am I trying to juggle too many hats? I’m I trying to be more than one person? If so, why?

QUESTION TWO

What is my purpose?

I believe that is the most significant question emerging artists ask themselves. I know I ask myself that question regularly. I’ve come up with a few answers, but nothing definite. I love sharing joy -that’s how I live my everyday life, and if I could give awareness to one topic in the world right now, it would be finding joy. We are surrounded by so much information in the media right now, and it can be so easy to be blinded, consumed and hazed with it. We forget about joy.

I’m waiting for the day something slaps me in the face, and it all makes sense. People always say do what makes you happy, but what if they make me happy? How do you eliminate them? How do you condense your list, so you don’t drive yourself crazy? Would you be even crazier if you didn’t do all those things?

QUESTION THREE

Can someone specialize as a multidisciplinary artist?

No one teaches you how to be a multidisciplinary artist. At least no one I know of. I think it’s because no one’s figured it out yet.

It’s hard seeking something that does not exist yet. I find most of the time I’m trying to navigate a kaleidoscope – the closer I get to an image, the more likely it is to have a million different answers.

It’s hard finding where you fit in when the field hasn’t been created yet. So, the question is, do you try and create the field? Do you embark on the seemingly impossible journey that does not have a particular outcome because it hasn’t been ventured before? Do you travel the final frontier of your imagination and hope that everyone comes along for the ride? Or do you settle in the comfort of the known? Do you pick acting, or dancing, or clown, or modelling, or singing, or painting, or writing?

There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t try to solve this problem.

What do you think?