/lit/ - Literature

weed, bro

The truth behind “great writing” is what you don’t write. Like in musical composition, the pauses inbetween the notes that punctuate their meaning. This is a confusing concept for amateur writers to comprehend. But it is what you DONT write that exists in the subconscious imagination of your reader, thus interpretative, hence “art”.

>>15401108
This post is an investigation into post-post posting. As an experimental work, it questions the dichotomy between now and later by interacting with the text box prior to the submission of the post button and the visual text interface published after the receiving of the submission of the post button. As an inquiry into time, it stands less as statement itself, or statement qua statement, and more as a talisman of self-referentialism. Upon the conscious awareness of the contained meaning, the reader or viewer or hearer (depending on the internal thought patters of whoever chooses to interact with this post as an artifact of time) becomes aware not only of their act of participation, but becomes simultaneously aware of both a willing and a forced participation. While the pixels-as-words themselves were engaged voluntarily, the thought-matter they seem to suggest has been violently thrust upon the reader. Whether it is enjoyed or not enjoyed, it becomes a fixed memory, like graffiti on the wall of the mind. By this, we are given a clear and yet obscure demonstration of what an artist's statement is crafted to be in the form of an artist's statement about itself as an artist's statement. It is qua qua qua.

>>15401108
https://500letters.org/form_15.php

>>15401272
i don't get it man
i have no writing background. but now i have to write an artistic statement for gay little art project.

>>15401361
kek, very based
i wish i were you :(

>>15401272
I like this concept.

>>15401272
This is Hemingway's iceberg theory and it is gay, you are gay.

>>15401420
>Nobel prizes in literature are gay

>>15401396
But more seriously, an artist's statement is just an opportunity to create the desired context for your art. Include whatever you'd like to include to intentionally frame the work to your viewers. Despite many claims to the opposite, it is essentially impossible to contemporary art without referring to the intentions of the artist. However, the trick to a great artist's statement is to obfuscate as much as possible the extent to which you are telling people what your otherwise inaccessible art "really" means.

>>15401441
*impossible to "understand"

>>15401441
>>15401453
Great words for this are:
>Interacts with
>explores
>the intersection between
>blank as blank
>investigates
>develops
>suggests
>grapples with
>stands between
Put as much distance in language between you and your work as possible, unless your work is identitarian, in which case you should strongly suggest that your personal experience can stand for some universal experience of your in-group. As much as possible, speak as the work itself has agency. As helpful principle, use really precise and academic-sounding language to be as vague and circuitous as you can be in physically describing the works.

>>15401433
yes

>>15401441
>>15401499
thanks a lot anon

>>15401108
use the word exploring

>>15401697
rtt