sm-ART-y pants….
I had the pleasure of going to the closing night party for an exciting young theatre company, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with and having some amazing friendships with over the last 4years. As my already drunken ass walked to the subway (to head even further from home to even more drinking out in Williamsburg) I was having a wonderful chat/talk with my friend ‘debonair’, a great guy, and wonderful director.
We talked about life,work,summer,more life, and the lot. And we of course talked about theater. Now I might not remember ever detail we discussed in our walk/subway wait/ride, but I do remember him saying something that stuck with me and made me think. ”I’m actually a smart guy”, he said it defensively like I didn’t know the fact about him (funny thing is I would never question his intelligence level ever: ‘debonair’ is a very smart guy!) This got me thinking about the sigma in a sense we “artists” live with. I do, and will always consider myself an artist, regardless of how others or society may see me. Now there are some of us who are strong and come off as strong and there are others (I would put myself in this category) people have a habit of putting me a box, stereotyping me in to a category. I come off a lot as maybe a little flighty, I am always joking around, and people might think I don’t take things so seriously. Basically, all I want to say is this:
We as artists and even us as people get judged to easily. Take a minute and get to know us, find out where we come from and what we love, what we think of the world, and even think of our selves.
FACT: you don’t know who I know, where I have been, how much money I have, why I studied what I did in school, what schools/programs I got into, who I was in high school, who I’ve become over the years, who i want to become…….or even how kick-ass i am at being a junior VP of a major Enterprise while still enjoy the life of an ‘artist’.
GOAL: to try and never defend my life, the choices I’ve made in it and choices I continue to make!
SIDEBAR: my dearest friend ‘hockeyplyr’ always says I never own what I do, I’m going to start “owning” more!
