Guest Questions
New Guest Questions will be posted from time to time and Chronic Artists are invited to write a blog post in response. One question per blog post.
If you would like to blog in response to a Guest Question please email rachelcreative [at] yahoo.co.uk
1. What made you become an artist?
2. How can chronic illness or pain be used in creating art?
Responses to the guest questions will be posted on the main blog. Please contact RachelCreative for details of how to participate.
Guest Bloggers
As well as our Guest Questions we’re also delighted to have guest bloggers have on Chronic Artists.
- Sarah Marie Lacy, Artist
Guest Bloggers Wanted
Chronic Artists wants guest bloggers to write about your life and work as an artist with chronic illness or pain.
If you would like to be a guest blogger please email rachelcreative [at] yahoo.co.uk
Page last updated: 25 July 2008
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June 19, 2008 at 11:35 am
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June 24, 2008 at 9:55 am
drtombibey
Hey there,
I am a doc and a bluegrass mandolinist. I have been lucky and had very little pain in my life. I also am not a great artist.
To play great bluegrass music, one has to have experienced suffering. I told one artist I loved the music, but I felt I would never reach the next level, because I couldn’t hit the road- too much of a homebody.
He said, “Well, Doc, for me I ain’t got nothing to come home to.”
Once Moose Dooley, my banjo player, and I listened to a singer wail out some sad saga. The man was red-faced and sweating. I’m sure his blood pressure was up.
I turned to Moose and said, “Man, I’d love to be able to sing like that.”
Moose said, “Doc, you ain’t drunk enough whiskey to sing like that. You ain’t suffered like that man.”
Moose was right. Much great art comes out of psychic pain.
As a doc and semiprofessional performer, I see a lot of musicians, and all sorts of pain. In the bluegrass world, my job is to help them if I can, and I do my best.
Dr. Tom Bibey
drtombibey.wordpress.com
June 24, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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