In Defense of Bad Art

I’ve been hearing the words “All art is good art” a lot lately and while I agree with the sentiment, I’d like to propose something slightly different: in order to make “good” art, we must first allow ourselves to make bad art. If I could sum up all my critiques in grad school with one phrase it would be this: “it’s not perfect, but you learned something.” Learning to be okay with making something I know is not going to be perfect has been huge. My whole life I was taught, “If you’re going to half-ass something, best not do it all.” While I do respect the sentiment of hard work behind it, in all honesty, that phrase has been responsible for years of self-loathing, perfectionism and crippling anxiety for me. Telling myself, “if you can’t do this one hundred..

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hum (its bad but i had fun, an din my defense i havent done traditional in a while)