i'm a scam artist, i make crap art

it's all coming together now.

I just finished seeing the latest episode of Flow with Korty, this time, featuring Olaolu Slawn, pka Oluslawn. A Nigerian British painter and creative that I've come to love actually. I've only seen him on this vlog, but he seems so real already. His art pieces are all original, and impeccable. Apparently, because of his art style, Naija Twitter has condemned this guy time and time again. They feel he is just making trash and calling it art. I'm now made to realise something. We've lost it with art really. Art should be a mean of freedom of expression. We've all been bound by the idea that art has to be conventionally perfect. But seeing Slawn, I now know that perfection doesn't make the art. The process makes the art. Process in this sense encompassing mood, feeling, emotion, atmosphere, theme, and all that, shey you get? Korty describes him as being impulsive, and I couldn't agree any less. His hands move on the canvas before his brain does a run-through, trying to process the situation.

Let me add, his perception is crazy. I struggle with making art a lot, because I think too much about the outcome. Even outside the art circle, I think too much of the aftermath, thereby killing the spur of the moment. "Never think about mistakes..." He said.

Korty: "But what you painted is not fine."

Slawn: "Ehn, but that's not the point. The point is that we did it."

Slawn: "Do you know what's so sick about this? When you're done yea, you're gonna stand back, and you're gonna be like, 'you don't know how to paint, I don't know how to paint, but guess what? I want it in my house.'

I'm totally smitten y'all. I wrote a piece about art a while back too. Let me go bring it up.

06.01.2024

art.

You know now I think that the intense desire to want to do art the right way limits us as artists. I restrict myself too much with the thought that art has to be perfect. I get carried away with wanting to do it the right way. Art is meant to be free, a tool of escape. Just as I look up and see a vast blue sea instead of the sky, and a turtle swimming, a hawk reaching down to catch her prey, instead of these lock of clouds. Art is meant to free your spirit and not imprison it. It doesn't have to be perfect, just create and fall in love with what your heart created. Look at yourself, walk to your mirror and see an imperfect work of art. A work of art made by the master artist. The mind of an artist is an endless abyss. If you've seen Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer), then you caught a glimpse of Tanjiro's soul in that train demon incident. Yep, the mind of an artist is a sight to behold. An endless space of unimaginable possibilities. Actually, I've thought about this a lot. Magic is not the pixie dust that we see fairies sprinkle in Disney, or the wands we see witches, godmothers, royalties, swing and the spells and incantations they recite. Magic is the ability to create. Art is creating. Creating is freedom. Freedom is art. Art is free. Art is magic.

Where I saw just lines, trash, rubbish, etc. Oluslawn saw a pair of eyes, a nose, a head. He freaking made a character out of nonsense. Like how Charlie Puth would make music out of thin air (I'm not even kidding. Charlie will record thin air and make music out of it.) I love seeing it, when an artist is free and at peace while making art and creating. It calms me, it's soul soothing and easing. So, I'll keep making crap art.