This year marks 20 years of drawing in the furry fandom, for me. I guess I haven't made all that big a contribution to the fandom, but I've made an effort at any rate. I've also been around long enough to see plenty of changes, one of which has been bothering me for a long time. Art can be a legitimate act of rebellion, a challenge to standards and notions which people take for granted, it can be a way of placing a mirror in front of society, being cause for reflection and introspection. There is such a thing as too much of anything, however, and it certainly feels to me that furry art is losing its warmth, affection, sensuality and appreciation for beauty, in some bizarre quest to constantly subvert the idea of these things or outright rebel against them.
One little irony that has emerged, to my mind, is that the way homosexuality and deviant tastes are often perceived as little more than lustful depravity by those who oppose these things, is progressively being confirmed as true by the works being produced by gays and deviants. Chasing after extremes, the mundane no longer satisfies.
For every work displaying warm affection, love, care and emotional passion, there are thousands of works depicting the opposite. To a great extent, the art produced follows the demands of the audience; I mean artists need to survive after all, so I don't lay this specifically at the feet of artists, but rather what is popularised by the majority audience. It's so lacking in taste and demanding of a gross aesthetic that I often despair. This will no doubt be a very unpopular view, but I don't think all this filth is good for the soul. I think it's a form of coping with insecurity and pain, to revel in art which depicts the low and the sordid, the base and the wretched.
It wasn't always like this, the balance between the fucked up and the gorgeous being tipped so far on the side of the former, and I think it's a change for the worse. I miss it. Ah well, just something that is often on my mind.
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