With the fire of youth, the early work of most artists features an intense drive to convey extremely individual and personal emotions. In my case, as is often the case, there was a great deal of anger at a world that somehow fell so short of what I wanted it to be. Such is life. Adolescent angst has generated a lot of art.”Why do things have to be so fucked-up? What about all the old farts running the show? What are we waiting for? Let’s have it NOW!!!!” As you age, and you start becoming more accepting of the world as a runaway train, perhaps your artwork starts to project more universal themes, rather than being all wrapped up in yourself. As a matter of course, with age, the universal nature of the human condition reveals itself and one wants to express that universality rather than the intensely personal variation of the theme. But still,that early work has a certain special nature as a window to a soul.
