“You get an idea and think, that's great, but after a certain time you realize that precisely this idea has been chewed on for a long time already. When I was in school, I was constantly frustrated because all that I did was somehow derivative. Therefore, when I began with copying works at hand, I understood this path as a kind of resistance against such frustrations. I can cease to be original.” (Sherrie Levine)
We try so hard to be original and even after a brilliant idea comes to your head and you are so excited to start something new at some point a frustrating feeling visits you: I have seen something similar before...
I believe a lot of young artists feels this way, not only me. You have an itch to create, but only a few pieces ends up finished. Furthermore, you have a bunch of sketches or unfinished art work laying somewhere in a corner only because that 'I have seen something similar before' visited you.
Appropriation existed for a long time, it existed even before people understood what it is. Only nowadays copyrights became such a huge thing. Everything has to be on the paper singed and sealed. Maybe we feel the need to put our work away since we saw something similar because we feel like thieves. Copyrights live for a long time now and it became a huge and popular thing. It seems as if everything is there already. And the thing is, because of the Internet our brains absorbs so many images per day that we can not help but add some of the already seen details to our work. But is it a bad thing? Is it a violation of someones copyrights? Do we really have to feel like thieves or is it just a new way of brainwashing?
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