All art is exploitation
All art is exploitation. It’s all theft. It’s all profit from someone or something else’s reality. That’s just a thought that’s been rattling around in my brain recently. Every time someone writes a song or a poem or paints a picture and, especially, when someone takes a picture, it’s stealing for the sake of individual ego.
I’m okay with that. But I still find it interesting.
What you’re doing when you write something or sing something or paint something is that you’re claiming it for your own. Even if you say you’re not. You’re putting a focus and a context around your intepretation of an idea. You’re presenting people and ideas through a specific individualized lens and the point is that it’s your lens.
I think about that when I think about song lyrics and how they can refer to moments in life or ideas and how no matter what you say you are stealing from that moment or from that idea and claiming it as your own.
