WHAT INSPIRES YOU? If like myself you are studying a creative subject, then I’m sure you can agree with me at some point you have been asked ‘Who is your favourite artist? Have you been to any exhibitions recently? What inspires you the most?’. Firstly, fuck off. Throughout school, college and uni I constantly heard the same old bullshit about how you need to do artist research for you to pursue your idea. Yes, don’t get me wrong, studying artists and researching into previous art movements is beneficial into the development of your work. But don’t sit there and tell me that if I don’t have a little black fucking book of my favourite designers in my pocket that I won’t make it as a designer. Personally, I could not give a shit about what other artists are doing nor do I care to include them in my research to try and establish some bullshit link between their work and mine. Instead, I get inspired by everyday life that is happening around me. To be perfectly honest, I don’t even know how people get inspired by galleries anyways. Everytime I go to an exhibition it seems to be the same old shit, large rooms with two paintings on the wall. Bunch of weird ass people stood staring, arms crossed with one hand scratching their chin in silence. Instead, why don’t you use that £20 entry fee to throw some petrol in your tank and go for a drive and find inspiration from the shit that’s going on around you. Take in your surroundings and use that to inspire yourself. You man don’t even go exhibitions to appreciate the art, just to grab a snap of the ticket to put on social media to make your fan girls think you’re deep and a decent guy. Fuck yourselves. Aw babe, I fucking love art I feel it really speaks to my soul you know. It touches my heart, I literally feel like this painting is speaking to me. I write poetry you know, have a listen. Roses are red, violets are blue, I chat complete shit, in the hope I can hit that ass too. Yeah safe, that’s deep bro. Keep at it. But what you fuckers don’t realise is that you’re killing it for the people who do go to appreciate it. I couldn’t give a fuck if your Instagram got 55 likes for the photo of the ticket, get your iPhone out my face you annoying piece of lump of. The last time I went to a gallery with my a group of friends as they ‘heard’ it was really good. They were hyped for the queue and taking pictures of the build up, but once they were actually in the mood suddenly changed and they couldn’t wait to get out. Don’t fucking go to an exhibition if you don’t care for what is in it. Don’t get me wrong I do appreciate the exhibits and the people enthusiastic to go, just go if it actually interests you and not for the hype. It’s a waste of your time and money. Focus on what you’re doing and don’t piss the world off with unnecessary bullshit that we don’t need.
I’m not writing this article just to piss and moan about shit though, I’m actually trying to make you think and look at things differently. You don’t need to go to events and shit just because you heard it was the place to be, go out and discover your own shit. Once you find something that triggers your imagination you don’t need to worry about going to all these fake ass conventions to jump on the next mans dick to try and get some attention. Find something that makes you think. It doesn’t even have to even inspire you it could be something you hate, but it’s made you think about how you can make it better. Everything you need is right infront of you, you just need to open you eyes. Even when people tell you that your work isn’t good enough, fuck them. As long as you think your work is dope then you keep doing you, create something for yourself and don’t let anyone tell you shit. If you have to rely on events and other shit to get you motivated, then you’re fucked because if it suddenly stopped what would you do? Stop worrying about people pleasing, what others may think about you, whether your work is good enough or even about fucking up. As long as you think your work is cool and you’re proud that’s what matters. You may even look back in a day/ month/ year and think differently about what you did but then that’s because you’ve evolved and become better. Sometimes you gotta fuck up for you to realise why and you can learn from it. Life is just a game and you got to play by the rules or else you’re just gonna be stuck in the same loop hole forever. A lot of people think I am arrogant or a prick because I always speak my mind and don’t really give a shit about peoples opinions. But then again I constantly find myself being told I can’t do something and people talking shit once I do it on my own and prove them wrong? So who would you say is the prick? If you’re going to talk shit about my vision and say I can’t do something I won’t stop until I have done it as to me success is the greatest revenge. Knowing you have achieved something on your own, doing it your way, with everyone tell you to quit or your work is shit. But you did it, despite all that. Isn’t that something to be proud of? Fuck those guys, that’s why I stick to myself and not listen to shit. Throughout this project I have had people telling me you can’t do it yet here you are reading this article right? You see people featured in this magazine? Exactly. I’m not saying my opinion is right, I’m just saying it’s something to think about.
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