I feel I need to talk to someone about art. The nature of the work is solitary as many who are in the trade will testify. Ironically I have all the means to connect virtually with the entire world, and yet I feel I have no one to talk to.
The social media platforms look like a perpetual trade show with people seeking attention amidst the cacophony of solicitations. That is why they are pitching, rather than talking.
In the earlier days of the Web, people were putting up their websites and blogs, hoping they would get indexed, or maybe even curated. Then the static nature of their publications got unbundled, and their content distributed in a piecemeal fashion. They called it the Web 2.0. Then came the social media platforms that sought to capture all these "wandering stars:" Nuggets of people's ideas, identities and desires, and keep them safely in their net.
