On Art

Tbh I never really saw myself as a developer, or a designer, or an entrepreneur, it has always been more of an art for me.

The tech stacks, the design tools, the code, the website, the apps are just mere tools. Tools to tell stories. Meaningful stories.

And there’s a difference you see.

A basic design is, well, functional. But a great one always says something, tells a story, carries a message, invokes a feeling of connection…

And in the end “it” only has a meaning if you actively actually choose to give it one.

It’s actually when you start putting details into very mundane things, that is when you truly start to notice the details, the hidden invisible story everything carries.

I guess that’s what art is about in the end, it’s about seeing the invisible, it’s about the ability to see something. I mean it’s incredibly serious that we do not take something for granted… to realize I can see more, should I make an effort… I guess that is what art is. I guess that’s what I am in the end an artist, not a developer, not a designer but an artist, a creator who creates as if it actually matters, a builder who builds as if he cares.

And it’s incredibly important that we don’t lose this sense of wonder and innocence that we had as a child about these things.

I mean I still vividly remember the first time I made a button move across the screen.

I couldn't sleep that night. How could I? To me "I had found the cure to Alzheimer's."

To me, it still felt like magic, and my brain was running like a giant hairy man running on a beach with lil shorts. There were so many possibilities I could see, so many colors, I could finally see colors for the first time in my life. If I could make that button fly like that I didn't what else I could do. Maybe I can make a rabbit fly across the screen, or maybe I can make text do a backflip across the screen.

And I still to this day could ask for nothing more than to create, with my hands, tiny shards of beauty that make the world a better, more open and genuine place (yes that's how I think about product design & development, please gag silently)

And I hope that I don’t ever lose this sense of wonder & joy about creating “art” no matter which forms it takes as I navigate through life.

P.S. - I literally just deleted three sentences full of "incoherent creating art jibberish" and you're reading this instead because just re-reading them made me sound as if I have some sort of fetish for all this computer mumbo jumbo that I do, when I really just felt this need to get this verbal diarrhoea about art after reading this book (you'll never see things the same way after reading it).

Fin.