Art and the trap door in the floor - self doubt
Art and the trap door in the floor - self doubt By Kirsteen Lyons-Benson BA (Hons) Artist (not a critic nor an academic, an artist) I am an artist, it is who I am in a very simple literal sense like “I am a spade” or “I am a hammer” by this I mean - I just am, it did not come from my genetics, or my qualifications, or my fairy godmother, and I do not require anyone else to make it so. But unlike a spade I am because I choose to be. Being an artist to me means several things, I am outside the class system, kings and prostitutes have been the subjects of artists for as long as there has been either. I am outside society and it’s insular groups as much as I can be, I should be friends with many groups, welcome many places but belong very carefully - because I should alway strive for perspective, this is because an artist’s function is to comment on civilisation and imagine new futures for us all. This is also why I read and travel as diversely as I can. Perspective, the search for n...