... But then again we all create justifications and reasons for what we do and sometimes we rely too much on thoughts of others, like living off the breadcrumbs from someone else's table.
Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to justify what they do and others will always doubt what they do and treat their own self as the 'the usual suspect'.
The problem with today's consumer culture is that businesses through marketing have succeeded in creating categories and neatly defined groups, the same way people have begun to unconsciously or consciously define themselves with groups, ideas and interests. there are mainstream artists, fringe artists but unfortunately the fringe artists are not on the fringe because of their work, its simply because that's how they define themselves and would like to be identified with, so ironically 'fringe' is also mainstream because its simply an antithesis to whats mainstream but its defined by a conscious choice in most cases.
There is no authenticity in art anymore. What is there is there because it caters to a certain group. For example if a movie director wishes to make an 'art movie' the first criterion that he uses is how not to make a film which will resemble a 'mainstream film', so hence the conscious act of trying to be on the fringe of an art he actually fills another mainstream perception.
Anyway, we're living in dark times despite the glitz and 'bling'. Even the fringe is no longer a refuge because its filled with rejects and 'disposables' from the mainstream.
/OK... I was not planning such a long reply.
