I used to post on DeviantArt.com every time I would finish a painting or drawing. I wanted a community of great artists to talk to and share my art with. It was going well for a while and I did get to see some amazing art, but I never really liked the moniker, deviant. I was able to meet some like minded artists there and to do some collaborations with people who were way more advanced than I was. Bernard Dumaine and Neil Dring, and others. It was fun and I was living out my high school dreams of doing some exquisite corpse drawings (Surrealist collaborations where you only see half of the drawing at a time, while the other person works on the other half). I did this through the mail about a dozen times. It was neat, though I did feel under-qualified.
Back then and somewhat now, I was absorbed into anything weird and surreal. I was so impressed and awed at anything that was twisting reality to be something unreal and confusing. I loved surrealism and I do still, but to a lesser degree. You see, when you distort reality enough, you bring through some negative energies and end up giving and attracting bad vibes. It is one of those things with art. You want to be the most individual and the most unique and the most surreal. None of which I was or ever have been, but I tried. It was a puzzle, a challenge and that is what I always loved about art.
Anyhow, it seems that this website, DeviantArt draws negative energy to it, just by the name of it. I get it. You want to deviate from the norm and be an individual and be someone who fits in with other people who don’t fit in. It is a thing that is cool. Anyhow, my vibration has changed. I am a different person now and I don’t like or don’t want to be a part of anything so dense and with a bad aura as being a “deviant”.. Maybe I am being a bit of a wimp or a wuss or naive, but it is something that I can’t have in my life anymore. I just can’t see it being something that will help me at this point. There are other ways to socialize on the internet and there are other ways to get your art seen.
Despite the site being something of a juggernaut in the online art world, I don’t like it anymore. They are plagued with indecent art and pornographic pictures that make my style and my better judgement tense up in unhappiness. “How can my art be seen for the glory of what I want it to be when there is so much filth around it? “, is what I thought. So I don’t want to be a part of it. Maybe I am getting too old now or maybe I just think I see a better way, I don’t know. But I hope that there will be greener pastures somewhere else.
I haven’t posted there in about a year it seems. It has been a while and i am just not liking it anymore. Power to the amazingly talented artists on there still and power to the people who want to make it better, but I just don’t think I can take part in that anymore. I always got a bad vibe there as I do on facebook at times. The whole internet thing is like that sometimes. I spend way too much time looking on the internet… I need to get out. Granted that is unlikely to happen much, but I do think I need to watch where I spend my time.
Just as my art has changed and just as my style is coming from a what I like to think of as a higher vibration now, I want where I put my work to be in a higher vibrational place.
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