How To Explain It To My Parents.
How To Explain It To My Parents from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.
If you work as an artist of any kind, chances are, you’ve struggled explaining what you do to your parents.
Now, dutch artists and directors Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug have documented 9 artists as they attempt to explain their often abstract art to their parents.
Their first of the How To Explain It To My Parents series regards a beer artist. The conversation is painful. But it seems that’s the point.
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It is amazing how relationships everywhere follow such similar patterns. We are all such “independent” people, yet we crave “acceptance” at the same time. This can be a very difficult thing to navigate with people you are close to. There is such great reward in breaking these patterns – ah…that is the big challenge…can we break those patterns? So much was gained because that father and son had that difficult conversation.
Posted at 10:38 pm on February 9th, 2010
I think it’s about consciously recognizing the confusion that’s smudged across the heart of the people you care about. And instead of helping the wondering person get back to what they know, encouraging them to lean into that unknown. I am very grateful my parents told me to do what I love, not what I know.
Posted at 11:19 am on February 11th, 2010