{"id":2439,"date":"2013-11-04T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:10:54","slug":"art-pigeons-and-derrieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Art, Pigeons and Derri\u00e8re’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m done with the politics. Let me just put it to you straight. I don’t brown nose or kiss people’s derri\u00e8re’s. I am real and when I compliment or do anything for anyone, it isn’t to earn brownie points.<\/p>\n

I’m not good at following the crowd either. I’ve been a loner for most of my life and learned to be independent. I’m not into social clubs, cliques, societies, sororities, or pigeons.<\/p>\n

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I’m not of the mentality,\u00a0 “I’ll scratch your back, if you scratch mine.”<\/p>\n

The false pretense of political niceties for the sake of gaining something. The manipulative use of the word “generous” makes my stomach turn.<\/p>\n

I am an artist.<\/p>\n

If I have to die with only a small following, so be it. I’m not going to compromise and sell out for recognition.<\/p>\n

I want my art and work to stand for itself.<\/p>\n

So long as I know I am creating work I am proud of, that’s enough for me.<\/p>\n

But, I’m not willing to prostitute my art for the sake of pigeons.<\/p>\n

Pigeons will flock to you when you’re giving them food, but the minute you stop, they move on.<\/p>\n

People be pimping their art for a buck. They’re willing to settle, compromise and sell out.<\/p>\n

I have no time for that, life’s too short.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how many years I have left on this earth, but I refuse to waste whatever time I do have by earning favors.<\/p>\n

To me, that’s not art.<\/p>\n

I’m not knocking those who do, if others feel the necessity to do this sort of thing, hey, all the power to them. I can only speak for myself.<\/p>\n

The herd mentality isn’t for me, it has an eery familiarity to that of a cult. Some people refer to it as “community”, which I believe is a bunch of crock.<\/p>\n

If you pay close attention and look passed the fa\u00e7ade, you will notice everything they do is based on their own gain through manipulation and the exploitation of trust.<\/p>\n

This my friends is not art nor the prescription of success.<\/p>\n

If this is what it means to succeed as an artist, then I don’t want any part of it. I’ll work in Corporate America the rest of my life, it’s way more honest.<\/p>\n

I rather success be earned through hard work. I want my art to stand on its own merit, rather than favors, contacts and connections.<\/p>\n

For me, art is not about politics, pigeons and posteriors.<\/p>\n

It’s about using the gifts God placed inside me, and waiting on His perfect timing.<\/p>\n

Where do you stand on this matter? How do you define art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m done with the politics. Let me just put it to you straight. I don’t brown nose or kiss people’s derri\u00e8re’s. I am real and when I compliment or do anything for anyone, it isn’t to earn brownie points. I’m not good at following the crowd either. I’ve been a loner for most of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}