11. I AM AN ARTIST

Is self-proclamation enough?

So in my previous posts I mentioned an interest in semantic satiation – the repetition of a word until it becomes meaningless.

In the case of the lie repetition makes it real, as Nazi Chancellor Joseph Goebbels is famously quoted as saying, “if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”

If a lie can be shared enough and people want to believe it then it will be true. And, if repeated enough will become so intrinsically linked with the subject of the lie, that you cannot separate them. David Cameron and the pigs head for example. He did it. Whether he actually did it or not because people prefer to believe the entertaining story.

In the hope of believing my own bullshit, I created a very simple little mantra to affirm my new career as an artist. A phrase I could repeat over and over to myself and anyone who would listen…I AM AN ARTIST.

Making a slightly crazed sketch where I wrote IAMANARTIST until it felt right to stop, I couldn’t help but go into a little trance like state where I got caught up with thinking…maybe I am an artist? Could this actually be the beginnings of a career as an artist? Is this a totally out of this world, original, brilliant project that literally no one has thought of before?!?!…. I AM AN ARTIST.