Amends to sleepie.
Quite a while ago, I was riffing on art on the forum, and wrote that art required an audience. I'd been thinking in a very abstract way -- my version of self-soothing -- and the idea of a receiver seemed necessary, maybe because I crave external validation. Whatever my thoughts at the time, it was my perception that I pissed you off, sleepie -- either I just annoyed the hell out of you, or you thought I was being personal, or I'm wrong in my perception, which is often the case. I can't say I didn't mean to cause offense, because one of my many character defects is that I occasionally like to stir the pot, as it were, but I didn't mean to cause personal offense.
For what it's worth, I'm actually now liking the idea of the artist as its own audience. "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space." If you can achieve that, I admire you for it.
And thanks for giving me something to think about.
