ARTEISM / LORNA CARAPULI

ARTEISM

You become an “artist” because you do not want to be part of the world as you know it, because you prefer to look beyond appearances and create more interesting microcosms, because you do not want to work or even be unemployed, because even at school the most interesting subjects seemed boring, because you want to make yourself useful by doing useless things but avoid the useful things that make you feel useless, because you want to live even after death and reborn each time you create.

You become an “artist” because the things you want to say do not really need words to be expressed, because you can talk a lot more with an image or an object or a silence, because you have not yet chosen what to become but you just think big, because you hope to become more fascinating than you are, because you can look like anyone without the need to be.

You become an “artist” because you cannot define art, because your thoughts are like dreams and everything you look becomes a vision, because you want to be independent but you cannot live without others, because you think that the word “artist” doesn’t mean anything in spite of saying everything, because the good thing about creating is to have the chance to destroy, because when you browse the newspaper you are not happy to read the names of others, because it is a good excuse to justify everything, because you can be starving without dying of shame and because you can become rich without doing anything.

You become an “artist” because you’re what you are, because you do not like compromises and do not like certainties, because you have nothing better to do, so you just have to do nothing, because nothing is really useful and no one indispensable.
Because there are too many artists and too little art.