One of my biggest fears is that my art work is all aesthetics and completely lacking in ethos
@geektox this idea's probably one of the things that's stopped my own art flow for a while now actually. do you know what kind of ethos you want your art to carry?
@kalamatamari That's a tough one! Ideally my work would be a reflection of my own ethics and politics but I also don't know how to do that within photography, the medium I work in the most, without getting into documentarian stuff and/or involving human subjects neither of which are something I have a lot of practice in, or feel comfortable doing
@geektox it's a toughie! the nature of how i did my own work made it impossible to tell how the finished product would turn out since they were all abstract & the decision-making processes were pretty entirely based on aesthetic sensibility. i think i was most happy with the things i made though when i invented symbolisms or narratives to read into the finished product even if they weren't obvious to other people or even originally intended
@kalamatamari Yeah I think I'm with you there, the stuff I've been most happy with is the stuff where the aesthetics might not immediately reflect the meaning I *personally* read into it and that's probably at least a step on the path to the right answer for this!