You can not close the soul of an artist between limited boundaries…

(Photo credits the.voyager)

I’ve got inspired for this post while reading Jack Pribek’s blog (which proves how ideas go around on the internet). Jack was speaking about his guest post on my blog, and about a few words in my “about” page that actually started this post.

The reason for which I said those words (”you can not close the soul of an artist between limited boundaries“) is the fact that I consider that there are only a few cases where an artist expresses himself only in one domain of art. For example, personally I have developed an interest in digital photography, even if it sounds boring these days, due to the ever growing accessibility of digital cameras. Everybody started taking pictures, which actually I consider a great thing because we should all explore our artistic sides one way or an other.

Long time ago I took hand drawing classes and recently I took a 2 years class in photography, just for my general artistic culture. I don’t consider myself a photographer and I don’t consider my photographies good. This is not false modesty, just that in that photography class, I have seen at least 2 guys that had a real eye for it, catching images that I just could not see. But this is an other post that I have in mind.

From my point of view, my photography class was a real success. I don’t consider myself a photographer, but I think I can tell, mainly, when a photography is good or not, when it lacks somethings and most of all, I have developed even more my interest in this bohemian and classy art form. I consider it a success because I think it enriched my personal view on art in general, and this is always a success.

See here a few of the photos I took for this photography class.

This serves my other hobby/passion: I love developing websites and website graphics, even lately I lack the time and patience to do a proper design, the way I used to do it about 2 years back. But the photography class helped me in seeing stuff in this direction too, so one more point for me.

As an other example, my band colleague and friend, Costin Tanasescu, beside being a great lead singer (don’t get cocky on this, Costi, OK?), a very interesting composer (I always find his songs different than how I would do it, which is always lovely and fresh to me), and an “official” poet with 2 published books and a third one on it’s way! At the same time he has some interest in photography; Cosmin, the bass player, has a very soulful way of composing songs and I remember him having the ambition of publishing a poem book a few years ago. I think his ambition has lost somewhere on it’s way, but his way of composing lyrics for our songs, not. And I do have more examples that feed my theory, I have just enumerated 2 in my closest neighborhood!

I think that you, while reading this post have already recognize yourself in what I say.

So, I dare to ask you, do you express yourself using only one art form or more? If so, which other art forms?

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