This; exactly this. His posts are like a dance, beautifully choreographed; each word sculpted, smooth as polished marble. Whether you appreciate the work or not is almost secondary to the construct.
This is Victor's art, and the reason why some people respond viscerally to it. It provokes emotional reactions, as effective art can often do.
I agree that this is Victor expressing himself through
creative writing. It's quite apparent given the style of his posts.
Indeed; a factor of personal maturity and chronological age, so forgivable, no?
For me, I don't think it's the above phenomenon because:
(1) I like his posts, as I mentioned earlier; the issue was never with his posts.
(2) I have no issue with another poster who has a similar style to Victor, wildcat. Why is Victor different? See below:
I sense that Victor likes to play. But I don't think he is trying to be intentionally disingenuous. Vague perhaps. Tantalizing yes. Provocative yes.
Victor is intentionally disingenuous in the sense that he wants to portray that his artwork is his
only reality, and given the evidence of him breaking persona (earlier in this thread), this simply isn't true.
His point was that his name and location are the only other reality relevant to him, and his artwork, the rest. There's more to Victor than that. But, he chooses to present only that to us, fine, great, just acknowledge it. Why acknowledge it?
As a respect to the audience for whom he performs his art. So, we know where the limits of our expectations are.
But......
We are his audience, yet it's more than that. He doesn't want an audience, he wants
fans. An audience can dislike a performance, a fan cannot (theoretically).
As such, he is quick to swing his emotional sword at any audience that is not
enamoured by his art. This is narcissistic (even though it's not Ne+Fe
) and selfish.
And, it's ever hairier than that, it's not just an appreciation of his artwok, we must appreciate/agree with the content of his artwork...such as his radical and skewed views of Islam that is oftentimes offensive and ignorant.
This is a forum where we exchange ideas. So, it's natural that regardless of the fine presentation of his art, some are wanting explanations for some of his 'art', especially when they're so radical.
We gave him what he wanted, were his rapt audience, and because we weren't also his instant fans, because we questioned, he responds through his artwork and this time, it's an ugly painting. It's insults, yet.....it's poetic.
And, so....the audience that asks him to step away from his artwork and explain it, are left with a scathing slice of flesh, because Victor's reality is his artwork. Nothing more. Either you appreciate or are unfair to him, dinkum.
Victor is more than his artwork, because it is not the critique of his artwork that gets to him, but the content of it. Victor is the mind, with the ideas, thoughts, biases. His artwork is the presentation.
There's a pretension inherent to this:
Artwork accessible, artist inaccessible.
His justification is that those above are not two separate entities, but one. To rationalize the inaccessibility of the artist. This is disengenuous and pretentious.
Victor should step out and speak as I didn't make commentary on his artwork, but his thoughts that motivated the artwork. I wanted to speak to the artist, but his responses make it feel as if I'm not worthy for the artist to drop his persona and speak to my being through his being.
There's an acknowledgement of differences, Victor vs. Victor's artwork. But, it seems that, Victor is the one who is unfair to us, because he responds by hiding behind his artwork, and when questioned, calls that his entire being, and respond only to his fans.
This is a selfish, childish artist. And, those acts of selfishness and childishness makes him disingenuous.
Finally, Victor was encouraging people to type him. A likely roadblock to this would be whether we can truly type him given that the "Victor" we see is the art, not the artist. So, for me at least, wanting to confirm whether it's a persona is not the same as calling him disengenuous. The disengenuity came when Victor said that that's all there is to him, he is the art. That there is no artist. There's a flavour of conceit to that thought, for me personally.
I was talking to simulatedworld about his 'extreme introverts use introverted functions' theory, and I can see ISFP in the persona that is Victor. Even though, I still stand by my claim that what I see is Ne mostly, not Ni. So, my conclusive stance on the artwork that is Victor is IXFP. As for the artist, who knows, as we are not priviledged enough to see him.
...yeah. It wasn't that I disapproved of what was actually said. It was that I wanted the title to represent the subject... if you know what I mean.
