Jan 24, 2022·edited Jan 24, 2022Liked by Andrew Harper
Andrew, like always you rattle my cage and piss me off. There is a presumption of outsider status in this piece that in my view over simplifies the dialectic between commercially viable art production AND non commercially enriching art.
Serena’s art is beautiful and capable of purchase by the largest consumer group in the world (middle class women) which has the capability of transforming and elevating both Serena’s platform and life style. But you celebrate the esoteric and the narrative of tortured outsider and encourage the virtue of not making art that is beautiful. This confuses me and I’d like to understand your motives better. Is it that you are suggesting society is a power structure to be attacked? Society is also community and a type of family, and in healing the wounded ‘outsider’ child the adult can be embraced by and also embrace others in a healthy way that includes meaningful and healthy commerce.
Andrew, like always you rattle my cage and piss me off. There is a presumption of outsider status in this piece that in my view over simplifies the dialectic between commercially viable art production AND non commercially enriching art.
Serena’s art is beautiful and capable of purchase by the largest consumer group in the world (middle class women) which has the capability of transforming and elevating both Serena’s platform and life style. But you celebrate the esoteric and the narrative of tortured outsider and encourage the virtue of not making art that is beautiful. This confuses me and I’d like to understand your motives better. Is it that you are suggesting society is a power structure to be attacked? Society is also community and a type of family, and in healing the wounded ‘outsider’ child the adult can be embraced by and also embrace others in a healthy way that includes meaningful and healthy commerce.