The Artist is Human Too

"Before you judge me, try hard to love me"
- Childhood, Michael Jackson

I can't judge what I don't understand entirely. What I do understand is that yielding to creative impulses is like walking a tightrope between cathartic satisfaction, public response and even divine approval. It calls for constantly negotiating the burden of artistic compulsion and deciding responsibility. Regardless of what is done and created, the results are often cocktails of speculation and mischaracterisation. Then, there is also the matter of creative frustration. Yes, the artist is human too.