You can find it about 16 paces to your right.
Wait. I mean 16 miles.
No, that’s not right…
The greatest value is not found. Nor can you literally create something that is valuable. Take for example, a novel no one has ever read, no one knows it exists, it has yet to have a value attached to it.
This is a common mistake I see in artists, writers, and those alike. So much of their intention is to create something valuable that, in doing so, they forget 1. their original motivation for creating (commonly to induce social change) and 2. that most items perceived as invaluable are so far off the paved, beaten, and forked road.
The fault is in trying to create something that fits a current valuable perception.
The answer to create something that does not fit any current valuable perception. (In all irony, that’s exactly where the most valuable perception is.)
I can’t help but think that, right now, there are people walking, driving, flying, and swimming in parts of the world that so few people before them have been. Surely, some are exploring areas for the first time. I envy them. No, I’m down right jealous. They are in the most invaluable places on earth.
Fortunately, art is not limited to the landscape of the earth.
Stay Positive & There’s Enough Space In Art For You To Be The First There
Garth E. Beyer
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