Artist

 

Neil Young!

“Music is my life. I just do what I want to do. And I’ve been searching around for a long time, trying everything I can to make me feel good or to try to keep me from being bored. That’s why a lot of times I do different things. And I sometimes do it in styles that people don’t understand or they don’t want to understand. But that’s the people’s hang-up. It’s not mine. My thing is I’m creating a life’s work.”

Photo Credit: William Coupo

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Here's the beauty behind this. Neil Young should be celebrated for being the artist he is. I fail to see why he does this to himself. . . what I mean is that an artist is not seen as a professional. The title of artist is given to a select few. In life that is seen as a rarity. Without really seeing the life of an artist, the public really see a monster. What is the monsters shadow is the artists only line of defense. I have strived my whole life trying to reach that. I truly believe in becoming an artist, as a calling. What is the problem is how artists try to identify with that. The truth is not an empty one.

We are not asked in life to become something that can be seen as unconventional. Which is what makes a lot of people uninterestingly enough, take the path of least resistance, we become unattached to the secret to it. What is it a secret depends on, is the fact you want something different for yourself on a personal level. It may qualify. You just don't want to take risks. So we refuse to (Take the risk.) The road less travelled.

I am not saying I want what Neil Young has, because what is rather less than obvious, is that I want to be an artist on my own terms. Being an artist in life is therefore unquantifiable.

What I am implying is that because art is subjective, the mark you hit no one else can see. Even if the object you identify with is seen as art. (Art has more than form because it is formless in behind the cracks you don't see.) Those cracks are what we have but rather cover with the ability to defend ourselves. Look - look at this crack I have - isn't it awful. What crack? What is it you are trying to tell me. I Am trying to tell you - you have no visible cracks as far as I can tell. Well. Well. Why don't you look deeper than. Deeper. Yes. Yes - deeper. That must mean you are trying to hide something from the world no one else can see. That is exactly what I mean. I think I understand now. I am an exception to rules. You mean you are an artist. Yes.

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Marco Almeida 2025

-The Peg