Art is not a handicraft

Or put a different way - can art that intentionally scares have a positive impact?

This is just a train of thought in response to a comment a friend made on my previous post, the quote by Jason Mraz.

I think that if done with the right motivations art can be scary with a constructive effect.

It can motivate change; cause us to not just look at the world but really see it and to see ourselves too - those things can all be scary.

So often we can float through life and consider it all roses and sunshine, shutting off the issues that others face and art forces us to see them. Art allows hyperbole but also reality.

Historically it was the painters, the poets and now it is photographers, musicians, journalists.

Its interesting though isn’t it? Newspapers are not longer the ‘King’ makers but social media is the new foot-in-the-door of fame.

That scares me for different reasons.