"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything" ---Bob Dylan
So Mr. Dylan is in the news for being rude again by not showing up at the Nobel Awards ceremony after first refusing to acknowledge the award for a couple of weeks. The outright refusal of the award by the likes of Sartre
seems like a classier move in many ways. But it still raises the issue in the Dylan quote above. The artist creates. Many artists create in a symbiotic relationship with their audiences, seeking to please and being fed and sustained by the approval of those audiences. Other artists recognize on some level the necessity or practicality of catering to public opinion in some form. But, providing the artist can ignore or withstand the reaction of the commentariat, it is perfectly within their rights to adopt a Dylanesque pose --- pose seems the right word in Dylan's case --- towards the artist's public. It just is what it is.
And sometimes the artist just needs to get busy doing what they have to do to create and stuff the rest.
For an intriguing collection of photos, see
Surzhana Radnaeva's www.surzhana.com.
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