What I can do

I have always thought I was average at best, not good in anything, never able to hold on to anything good in life.

 

Eventually I have figured out though that I can do this, I can express myself and create something that was not in existence before. I don't know or care if I'm good at it, popular or interesting. 

 

It's not just about the result, or the technique or the skill. Sure, it all is a part of it. It's not about something to have, a nice profile picture for your socials or the next trend. 

 

It's about feeling something, thinking something, questioning something, and turn that feeling, thought or question into something, out of nothing. To truly create, to relais and express your humanity. And that, in my opinion, is what art is about. And that I can do, express my humanity. So I finally found something I can do, I can do art.

 

I can do art, hence ican-art. 

 

If I can, then you can as well, so we all can do one thing or another. So find what you can do. If I can and you can, then all of us can. So we can. How great is that?

 

How I do

 

My reference is photography, I usually start out with taking a photo. What I do afterwards with it, is not fixed. It can be edited, painted, printed and painted over to be scanned again, lots of possibilities. Sometimes I don't or hardly edit a photo.

 

Sometimes I don't even start with a photo. 

 

It's not about a fixed technique or medium, even though the point of origin for me is photography. It's about the freedom to express what and how I want, or better, need to.

 

So who am I?

 

All I do is the result of my views, my actions and my choices, I am aware of that. It is all about my need to express. Nevertheless I think it should be about the work I make, not about me as a person.

With that I don't mean it's about the result as an achievement, but about you being able to have your own feelings about my work, your own thoughts. To have your own journey if you will. I express, and if you can relate from within yourself to my expressions, we connect, we have a connection, through art. I am not my art, but the art is how I want to connect with you. That's why it's about the art, not about me as a person. If you can connect with my art that's far more valuable for me than personal popularity or fame, those I avoid.

 

For that reason I have chosen to use a brand name, ican-art.