Art making ? Just an opinion...

Being an artist is a self enpowerment to watch the world goes by in perfect
harmony and/or disharmony. It's a self made privilege that is only
sustainable if: (1) your spouse and parents are rich enough to support you,
(2) APPRECIATION level for what you do is high and people/company/ authority
are willing to support out of appreciation, (3) you strike To-To, (4) you
inherited some stolen fortune of a distanted relative, (5) all the above.

Without the above, you must be totally talented to endure in any of the
following:
(1) eternal suffering in poverty for the rest of your life.
(2) forced to be part of a business guru's master plan to benefit himself.
(3) curry flavour with perfect sweet tongue and honeyed words for the
support that you will need.
(4) become a business man yourself.
(5) just do what you are told to do and use only successful formulae of
others.
(6) lose your ability to speak honestly.
(7) become a perfect entertainer for the crowd...

With great vision that we can believe in, is a world in order and grace.
With great illusion of material gain, we all are too busy snatching and
dominating our properties and food.

But, a perfect renunciation of materials is too lame to be workable in the modern
times, and a perfect achievement of materials is too clever for its own good...

That is the perfect irony of humanity, where there is only the possibility of a perfect storm
but not an utopia in this lifetime. We can be one step closer to a perfect vision,
but never totally there. With this, we need to admit the imperfection of ourselves
and not try to cast our shadows on others.

This is my "perfect" suggestion for "perfect arts" at this point in time:

Generous doses of APPRECIATION <=> Generous gift of HONESTY

~ written by Tan How Choon
Artistic Director Director (Education)
for ECNAD as posted on Arts Community Yahoo! Group