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I could go on and on for pages and pages, hours and hours. I tried not to. These answers are in no way comprehensive.
1. What does your creative process consist of? Do you think that the process of creation should be private?
My creative process is generally thinking/mulling over my concept idea for a week, writing lots, and just whittling it down to something I am (remotely) happy with. I then get as much feedback as possible, and repeat the process until completely satisfied.
With hitRECord, it happens faster: I find a picture that is inspiring, write down some ideas, and generally have what I release in a few hours.
The creative process is important to be shared, but the final piece of art should always stand alone. If you need to explain it, you've failed. BUT others' creative processes are inspiring, if you like their art. But my own preference is for an emphasis on the piece, not the process. Writing never has been or never will be a social activity. It is hard work, on your own.
2. Do you allow yourself to be censored by the likes and dislikes of society? Are you ever afraid to take your work a step further?
I do, subconsciously. I realise I think about how my work portrays me, and that this can kind of be limiting. I always need to be braver. All artists do, I think. Scare yourself.
3. What pushed you to fall in love with the idea of collaboration?
I couldn't name a precise moment, but bouncing off of others creatively is a great way to push everyone involved higher than they ever could reach on their own.
4. What do you think people could learn from collaborating, and what have you yourself learned?
People can learn how to approach things in new ways, which is always invigorating.
5. Do you believe that a piece of art can ever be “finished”?
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." I forget who said that. I think it is finished for that time. You can always go back and work on it when you improve/mature as an artist, but I think art should stand as testiment to the artist you were at the time you created the piece. Your last piece of art should be your best work so far.
6. How do you think the media limits artists today?
I don't know. The internet creates a lot of opportunities, and I try to concentrate on that rather than the limits of traditional media. If art is good enough, it will find an audience.
7. What piece of artwork are you most proud of?
I tend to hit a creative peak every so often, writing a poem I feel is the pinicle of what I've written so far, and then the next few feel like minor works, self-imitation. Each peak represents an artistic growth to me. My last peak was a few poems ago.
8. How have your family and friends influenced you in your growth as an artist?
My family raised me, and have given me the values that have made me the artist, and the person, that I am today. My friends from my hometown developed their artistic abilities and tastes as I did- we grew together, and that meant we all have similar ways of thinking and seeing. My other friends are the same, just running parallel to my development slightly later in my life. (Pretty much all my friends are creative. Just the sort of people I click with.)
9. Do you think your art contributes to a greater cause? If so what is it?
Art teaches me how to live. Is there any greater cause?
10. Has there been anything that has happened in your life that has made you doubt your self worth/ ability to create?
Every creative person I know has crises of creativity, questioning whether it is all pointless or worth anything. For an art form as culturally irrelevent (I am half-joking) as poetry, I get them fairly often. What the hell is the point? hitRECord has helped me get over these crises so often, because it tells me people actually care, actually like my work, and I can get that feedback pretty much instantly.
11. What has been one of the best moments that you have had here on hitRECord that you wouldn't have been able to have anywhere else?
Every time anyone remixes my work, I glow on the inside. Especially when they really capture the exact feeling I was going for, and add to it, take it to a new place.
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