Lack of Authenticity in Today's Modern Art Scene:

In a digital age where artists fight and strive just as much as the next fellow besides them, it can become fairly easy for one to cast their eyes on another in hopes of replicating formulas and blueprints one was not bestowed. Yet, I present this notion. It is imperative that artists in this day and age understand and respect the order and dignity of time. If not, it will always consume you and bite you in the back… If not in this lifetime than in the next.

Over centuries this point has been proven over many and many times again. In due time the truth will reveal itself. Maybe not to you, your peers, or your confined bubble of a community, but it will. Just as back in the early age of American music history. A time where Black American Artists were cast out of the pop music industry and had their art stolen and replaced by bigoted, unqualified and dignity lacking racists looking to make money over the labour of under represented and aggrieved victimized groups of peoples. Just the same way a person who knows nothing about Mexican culture can open a failing  “Authentic” Mexican restaurant, any disgraceful artist can take what isn't theirs and fail at their measly attempt to commodify what isn't theirs.

I think what matters is communication. How are you going to go about recycling one man's art as your own? Are you going to ask permission? Or are you going to take without them being aware? Art is conversational, political and expressive. When you willingly take what you know is not yours, what is the message you are trying to convey? And if you aren't ready to discuss the message your “art” is conveying, why release it if you can't answer for your creation?

The performance of motherhood is an art to be revered. You can spend one hour with a man and instantly begin imagining what his upbringing was, what his mother might be like. What were the principles she did or did not enforce in his life? How does he talk to women? What are his thoughts on the feminist movement (each different wave of feminism) ? Does he believe the trad wife to be the societal ideal for livelihood and expression for women? This here is a conversation about the art of motherhood, yet in a one dimensional way and aspect of looking at it, I think it's a great parallel to the conversation at hand.

And in this train of thought, artists are mothers of their craft. Crafting art from life. Or maybe even more specifically, creating art from their life.

I don't know anything, after all I'm just an under appreciated artist being stolen from yet again. They've always said history has a knack for repeating itself.

Food for thought in the presence of another person who tries to take my craft as their own.

Vultures will be sent out. Beware! 

Stephan LaFortune 07 / 30 / 25