What Makes An Artform Remarkable

What Makes An Artform Remarkable

Algernon
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.” – Algernon

The Importance of Being Earnest is by far my favorite play. I’ve read it twice and quoted from it multiple times over in my writing. (Also bias in the sense Oscar Wilde is my favorite poet.) I was finally fortunate enough to see a live rendition of it last night, and the show reminded me what makes a play or any artform remarkable.

People never talk about perfection and if they do, they are lying.

From a three hour-long play, only two actors made one mistake each. They merely started a word and, half-way through, restarted the word. There was a millisecond moment they questioned whether the word they were saying was the right word or not.

Again, over the span of three hours and thousands of words, only two moments reminded the audience the actors are human, and those two moments make all the difference in a remarkable show and an unremarkable one.

Jugglers, Actors, Humans

The reason jugglers attract such a crowd is they are in a constant state of risk. Even the most professional jugglers in the world still drop what they are juggling. If jugglers were perfect, no one would be impressed. The same goes for a playwright. The same goes for any form of art.

Slight noticeable errors are what we all relate to; it’s part of being human. When a minimal error is made during an act, it reminds the audience just how difficult, incredible and remarkable the art you’re doing is. As Earnest would suggest, it is mixing pleasure and science.

If anything were perfect entertainment (pleasure), it would go without being talked about. People talk about great experiences, sure, but never perfect ones and if they do, they are lying. (Consider giving them dental floss and reminding them lying through their teeth doesn’t count as flossing.) When an error is made, science complements pleasure.

The universal relation of humans is we may all strive for perfection, but we will never reach it. Any reminder of this concept, say, a slip of a word during a three hour-long play is what makes art of any kind, remarkable.

 

Stay Positive & Do Something Remarkable, Anything Except Perfection

Sleeping Above Your Dreams

I’m getting personal, being human.

A lot of what we read, we see the author as a god, as someone who is abnormal in a positive sense, someone who has been safe, who has been involved with one thing all their life and nothing else matters or bothers them. We can think of Suzanne Collins and think she writes great books and that’s it. I can’t tell you a thing more about Suzanne Collins.  I don’t want that, can’t have that, wouldn’t wish that. I’m too human, too personal. You can read all my content and see one hardened positive guru (feels weird calling myself that) See what I did there? I’m more than that. I’m human.

I talk to friends about life, about love, about goals and challenges and they think im unstoppable, that it all comes easy to me, that living life for me is like Suzanne Collins writing; it’s just what we do. Simple as that. That’s what readers want, that’s why I write to the best of my effort FOR people, not for myself. But that’s not what poetry is for. So this is me, writing one post to show a different side of my life. It’s this post that I’m releasing my book of poetry called Sleeping Above Your Dreams 2007-2011.

Here is the pdf version of Sleeping Above Your Dreams

 

Stay Positive & This Is Me Letting Go Of All Of My Poems

To Start New Again.

Garth E. Beyer