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Connection is what defines the relationship between the artist and audience. The artist through their work literally reaches out with an idea impressed on matter or by a transference of energy and touches the audience by means of their senses. Therefore, the bond between an artist and a fan is extremely intimate and personal.
At the moment of connection, which occurs in the mind of the audience, the person upon whom the artist’s message falls or whose work touches deeply, the audience member is transported temporarily into the space of the artist. This event occurs magically and perhaps through some means of psychic transmission. However it does happen, it seems to transport the audience member to another place and time completely, when the experience is deeply felt.
It’s as if a portal was opened through the work of the artist transporting another mind from whatever distance into proximity so as to have them share in the experience of making the artwork that brought them together. The work of art is a portal connecting the artist with specific people in the audience at varying intensities of connectedness.
One of the most common experiences and questions that occur to individuals in the audience when they become transported by a work of art is, “How did they do that?” What this means is that the individual is shocked by how thoroughly the artist has approximated one of the audience’s own thoughts, beliefs, ideas, personal convictions, experiences, sentiments, or emotions in a work of art. The individual perceiving the creative work imputes this part of the experience and this is what establishes the connection on their side of the interaction and permits the transportation to take place. The individual literally opens through acceptance of the work just as the artist previously opened themselves to pour out the work of art and this is what forms the portal of connectedness.
The audience wants the experience of being in the room where the artist spent countless hours originating, shaping, and developing their work in stages or in bursts of inspiration. They want to witness how failed attempts eventually lead to a breakthrough, how an artistic problem resolves with a flash of insight or an ingenious solution, and how accidents can give birth to new creative directions. To give them a direct look into such actions would require the artist to allow them into that space and therefore to have an influence on the outcome of the work.
Being in the room with the artist, the audience would no longer be an audience and would magically be transformed into an influence or force partly shaping the direction of the work. Since the audience is in the room, they switch from being transported by the work of the artist to becoming part of the process. No portal of imagination will form from this type of influence, so it fails to create the kind of connectedness that generates the sensation of being transported or moved.
When the artist sends out a message, someone is always listening. Who “hears” the message or calling from the artist is not always who they intended to reach, but someone hears nonetheless. A unique recipe, strange painting, unusual song, a building, a photograph, book, or chance meeting with a work of art are all vehicles for connectedness. Whether the audience member is touched through their sense of sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, or by a psychic channel of perception, the connection is forged when the mind of the audience relates the work of the artist to their personal history (memory) or aspirations for the future (dreams).
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