This is a Christmas one so not much to say about it. More relaxed and cutesy for the holiday. Gonna get really meta and talk about something I have though about artists who have a large body of work over time that is personal to some degree. My two favorite artists are piers anthony (author) and ian anderson (musician in the band jethro tull). Their works go across decades and anthony would always put these authors notes talking a bit about his life. For me he is the greatest story teller but not necessarily writer. What I mean is he had works that were sorta rehashes of other works but I was alway excited to get to the authors notes and that gets to the story teller part. I found he could talk about making eggs for breakfast and it would be fascinating. Ok switch to anderson and his music had a lot of viewpoints and feelings that come from him. So the thing im getting to is years later they have this log of their lives in their art. They can sit down and read or listen to something they did you their youth and recapture who they were then. I find that magical. I think this is the reason so many people recommend journalling. Thing is you have to not lose the journal. When you release them into the public space they become functionally immortal in the modern age. So you can never lose that precious bit of timespace encapsulated in the art. It makes me a bit jelly as if there is one aspect of human existence that is contrary to my skillset it is art. Writing being the closest I may get to it and well. You all know what my writing is like.
