I don’t know why but in the last week I’ve seen multiple people treat experimental art like vegetables you must eat before you can engage in discourse or interact with “the fun stuff” and I’m so tired of it. It’s boring and frequently comes from folks who don’t engage with the material anyway and just want to use it as a cudgel to beat on other things. This is mostly a video game blog but this happens with all mediums. It feels like it’s the only purpose this art serves as and it’s depressing not only as an artist (I will let myself be a little pretentious here) who wants people to look at my work and by other folks as well, but they’re depriving themselves of so much joy if they only see it through this lens. When I see something that I haven’t seen done before in film, music, games, and other mediums I become so filled with a love of art that it drives me to seek out more. The first time I heard Wolf Eyes I thought “What is THAT? That’s not very good.” but I kept listening because…
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