Yes, I love music, a lot. I get a certain feeling from it. I listen to it whenever I get the chance and it is the one thing that I need while I'm blogging and painting. I love going to concerts, I have a special experience with every show I go to. I love listening to music without my hearing aids that is something I can never really explain for a hearing person to understand. It's a beautiful thing and it is mine. I do get obsessive and sentimental with music. Music coupled with films and shows is a beautiful art that fascinates me deeply. I love making CDs for myself and others. I love talking about music. But at the heart of it, music is not my true inspiration, there are other forms of mediums that affect me differently and more profoundly. I have a hard time relating to most music that I listen to. There are chunks of songs that I do relate to but there are a lot that I don't. I know that a lot of fans say that certain songs have helped them overcome something and what not, but that hasn't really been much of a case for me. But I will list some artist that have created one to many songs that I do relate to, Candlebox, Alanis Morissette, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Stevie Nicks, Awolnation, Massive Attack, The Gathering, The Script, Rob Thomas/Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, and so on. Music does mean so much to me, but the point is that I want to focus on the things that irrevocably mean more to me.
Literature, books, books, books! That is essentially my inspiration. It inspires me to write, to think, and very much to paint. Essentially it is words, thoughts, sentences, that I will forever jot down for future references of something I eventually want to draw or paint or create for. I have always loved reading, even while it was hard for me to comprehend at a young age, something I think is due to my hearing condition. Vocabulary and reading comprehension was something I had difficulty with and overcame but pushing myself through. I still have a unique way with my interaction with words, but that's what makes me me. I tend to initially interpret things differently from the norm. There is always something different that I take from what I read or watch that isn't what the others around me notice or see. Reading textbooks and required readings in high school even inspired me and still does.
Films and visual arts do the same as books. I have come to the realization that it is because books, films, and art are visual [here I consider books to be visual in the sense that I can see the words rather than only hearing them as like with music]. I interpret better with visuals. I am a visual person and have an amazing spatial memory. Visuals provoke me deeper than anything else. Visuals are also symbols and symbols are strong, sacred, and memorable, thus inspirational to me.
Let's also not forget that I have three tattoos that are dedicated to band, an artist, and my life through eyes. They are my holy trinity, so to speak. My third eye tattoos are a design from Alex Grey, used in album work for the band Tool. Both are my favorite band and my favorite artist. This design is an eye to portray my love for eyes but also through my third-eye-awarness/extra sense of living my life differently from the hearing. To add further, I made this really cool painting of American Sign Language that says "Language is Art". I still stand by that statement.
There was this little cheesy but effective animation that describe the world that the Deaf live in. It was called Eyed or something, the point being that the Deaf live through their eyes. It's just different from EARth. It has stayed with me forever, this is where I live.
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