I don’t know how I stumbled upon Hi Ren, but I was absolutely transfixed. I could image being in a darkened theatre seeing this on the stage, feeling that electrical chill of the silence in the aftermath of a performance like this would bring, the long pause before the deafening applause. I just love it on so many levels.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Hi Ren, the most obvious or maybe easy interpretation is that this is about mental health. But I think the struggle that exists within us all, acknowledged or not, whether intense or not, is the reconciling of our dark with our light.
Personally I feel the artist’s struggle with imposter syndrome. It’s all been done before. Who are you to think you have any kind of voice worth listening to?
Art can take many forms. But the best kind for me is art that digs deep, finds something that purely yours, and uses the craft to tell that story. I feel that if you can do that authentically – then your art become immune from criticism; criticism becomes meaningless. Easier said than done, of couese.