who will love artists with due share of dignity?

when do we artists think in terms wider than our reality? all artists away from the hot contemporary locations and thematics of war, machine and media have to give a thought to it with more of a will power...

the sources of global art world tell any artist at locations with lesser pedigree of art culture - " Phu, do it contemporary, man"

but how and when does one acquire perceptions of the 'contemporary'?
it is --- when one occurs on a new image? when one goes new places? when one finds somebody saying 'i like your work, please give it to me for this sum of money? when an international critic adds one's name in a list of artists in his article? when one participates in a show at hot hubs of art ? when one sees strange works in internet of unknown people in unknown galleries at far away places? when one experiences poverty, that pennyless state of affairs in pocket? when one gets more money than he / she could have dreamed of? when one is indulging in a love of all affairs around?
for an artist to think wider than immediate reality has many means and reasons.

yesterday i met a young man who does strange sketches of ordinary lives. they are truly contemporary for any land devastated and ruined by wars and middle men. like kashmir or iraq or afghan or palastine.....somehow he lives in north kerala, in a fairly scenic land but of moderate profile except in possibly tourism industry.

he is an illustrator in malayalam weeklies for a living or for something less than a living. he is not popular for the ordinary sense of the term. but he is loved by many readers of fiction in malayalam. he has worked with some writers who try doing strange pictorial stuff. he worked with ordinary writers too, because afterall that is an illustrator's job. but ofcourse he believes that he made a better living when he was working in his brother's chappal production unit for some time when he was a student.

today he has come to this town thrissur to meet a writer who might buy his painting with some dignity. we simply shared seeing the works of Amy Cutler and Marcel D'zama in my collection. he came with a friend and they left for their prospective buyer living nearby.

there are many writers and intellectuals around, mostly high-salaried class who speak with passion for artist's works (many artists have got accolades similar, for that matter) but when it comes to buy and help him in reality with that damn thing called money, most of them shy away and speak of many other stuff under the sun and have a tea together and depart for the day from any possible cross roads of life. and it is difficult to deal with 'money men' who might help also. most of them simply go for perceptions where it is often difficult for an ordinary person to trim and prune to those fantasies.

artists are not loved for the reasons of reality...

they are loved simply for the reasons of fantasy.....

but an artist like anybody else, has a tummy, wife, kid, family and other things that create problems when he simply thinks 'contemporary' terms 'wider than his reality'.