Tag Archives: Beauty

Arting Shapes You

Posted on August 18, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

I’m going to suggest that by far the most significant and dominant thing that comes out of maintaining a creative practice is that it defines and refines you. It teaches you better habits, improves your resilience, hones your fine motor … Continue reading →

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In the Bin

Posted on June 21, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

As an artist, do you ever wonder what will happen to your life’s work and all of your tools for creation, when you are gone? Most people probably hope that at least some part of that body of work will … Continue reading →

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Weaponised Art

Posted on June 1, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

The Humanity/Insanity Test I have an acid test to propose for artists and their art. I call it the Humanity/Insanity test. “What’s that?”, I hear you ask. It’s a judgement about which of the two your art increases, in the … Continue reading →

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What’s the Good of Art in a Pandemic?

Posted on March 29, 2020 by tropicaltheartist

When everyone is sick, or dying, or unemployed, or at risk, who thinks about making art? What does it help? What good does it do? The temptation is to focus on health and well-being, survival and being able to eat. … Continue reading →

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Art Smuggling

Posted on October 3, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There’s something important about LP records that the inventors of the compact cassette, compact disc and streaming music services evidently failed to grasp. If they were to be believed, these music delivery formats had a single function – to deliver … Continue reading →

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On Not Doing the Work You Love

Posted on June 21, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

It might seem strange to be writing about underemployment, when the executive branch of the most militarised and powerful nation on Earth is, through its legions of official goons and flunkies, bureaucratically, permanently orphaning jailed small children and babies, just … Continue reading →

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How Many Creative Options Do You Need?

Posted on June 11, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

This is a hard lesson to learn for many artists, myself included. Here it is, though: adding more creative options only causes you to reach a point of diminishing returns quite rapidly. Beyond that point, having more creative options available … Continue reading →

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Expense or Investment?

Posted on May 21, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

It all depends on how you look at things. Two people can observe the same event, but because of their default mental models about that happenstance, conclude that two entirely different and irreconcilable consequences have resulted. What you think happened … Continue reading →

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The Ideas That Excite You

Posted on May 1, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There are some ideas that fully capture your imagination and enrapture you. They pique your interest and stimulate your curiosity. In short, they excite you. Not everybody responds to the ideas that grab you the same way you do, so … Continue reading →

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How Different You Could Have Been

Posted on April 22, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

You might think that, born somewhere else, under different circumstances, you’d turn out pretty much the same as you are today, no matter what. The things you accomplished would have been accomplished, no matter where you started. You’d think the … Continue reading →

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