NEW SINCERITY
A draft of:
NEW SINCERITY
A MANIFESTO
We are neither the divine voice nor the audience - we are the interpreters - the Shamans.
At the heart of New Sincerity is the belief that nothing original can be created completely from without. The most unique thing the artist has to offer is himself, for he is inherently different from all other people. Therefore, in order to innovate he must produce an art the every facet of which is fundamentally and apparently filtered through the self. In order to do this the artist must draw from a third place, a place of mystic origin, of Fire. A place of Fire is a realm that exists in the air around us; it is the awesome feeling of history and culture and self amalgamated that turns the man into the artist. The Shaman is one who cannot escape the Fire, who constantly feels its heat, but who learns to take the light of the Fire and create with it a constellation in his own image and in which his audience sees themselves.
