#external mass market vs internal catharsis

[skeletaltumbleweed]

jolted awake while trying to sleep with this thought:

- clara bow is about the external toxicity of art (the industry)

- the manuscript it about the internal catharsis of art

both explore the idolisation of youth in women and how they are discarded as they show any sign of age or maturity, replaced with another. clara bow looks at how the comparison of women by an industry is done for destruction, pitting artists against each other once a shiny new toy arrives. the manuscript looks at the comparison of women on the basis of shared experiences, and using the traumas of womanhood can allow people to connect more deeply, finding relief in this comparison. it’s about using your art to release your feelings, and then passing them onto an audience that will hopefully find their own kind of catharsis in it.

it’s the ways that womanhood and art are so differently shaped by external vs internal factors.