I’ve read and reread the latest post "The Risk of Art" by author, musician, arts pastor Manuel Luz on his blog "Adventures in Art & Faith" several times. There’s so much in it that resonates with me as an artist.
I think he is so right…to be an artist is to live a life of risk. I wouldn’t want it any other way. The last two paragraphs were sobering to me. I’ve had seasons when I didn’t risk…and they have been the most dissatisfying and numbing moments in my life. I’d rather risk and find myself wrestling with all that it means to be an artist (and an artist of faith at that!) than to live a life of mediocrity and nothingness. When I allow myself to risk, to feel, to be all present in my artmaking, to collaborate with God and with others (to create in community and fight the instinct to isolate), to let my work speak meaning and passion and depth (even if it’s not what I think it “should” say, but rather allow it to say what it “needs” to say), when I dive in deep and let the art take me to new places (giving myself room to experiment, to learn, to go beyond), when I allow myself to be a catalyst for creative hearts…when I allow myself to risk, I live adventure…I’m alive…and I’m being who I was created to be.
Please take some time and click the link to go directly to Manuel's post and read what he has to say about the value of risking in art. If you'd like to comment on that post, please do so...he's looking for creatives to enter into the conversation with him.
Click on the link below to read the actual post on his blogsite:
http://manuelluz.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-risk-of-art/
Manuel Luz wrote the book, "Imagine That" and was one of our main speakers at our Creative Church Conference in Boise last summer.
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