Caring enough to open the door.

Often we dismiss people who don’t like our Art even if they are not contentious or critical or rude, they just don’t get it.

Maybe the fault is with us because we have not given them enough to understand what we are trying to say and without them understanding we have lost them.

Like in this mornings video if the sculptor had given us a narrative to follow or made a video explaining his intent behind the piece and what he was trying to say with the piece, we may have been persuaded.

If the cinder blocks had a pattern in how they were arranged and he had drawn it out and put it on the wall with an explanation, maybe it would have taken form and we would understand his intent rather then just a random mess.

If someone is not understanding what we are saying in and through our Art, it is maybe because we have kept it a secret and have not explained what we were trying to do.

We must care enough about our viewers to explain to them why we did what we did, even if it seems obvious to us.

People can’t see through our eyes or hear our thoughts, don’t leave them to see it and make up their own minds, tell them why you did it, what it is all about, give them a reason to see it, to really see it, once you open the door they will understand.

What is required by us is a persistent effort to understand how other people view our Art and to care enough about them to give them a door to enter into our Art.