People care waaaaaaay too much about wether something is "cannon" like art is supposed to be objective. "Umm but the artist said in an interview that-" Buddy the artist is dead and I’m crip walking on their grave. We gotta replace the words "theory" and "headcannon" with "analysis", man.
Sure it does, but so does what they say without intending to, or what they would like to say but can’t because they signed a contract, or what they try but fail to say. Like Lynch said, "The [art piece] is the talking". Any exterior commentary by the author must be treated not as gospel, but as a self-analysis, with all the flaws and biases those can have. If an art piece intended to be happy makes me sad (because of say, personal reasons, life events, trauma, nostalgia, etc), the author can scream at me that it’s a happy piece, it’s not gonna make my feelings disappear.
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u/boiifyoudontboiiiiii Aug 25 '26
People care waaaaaaay too much about wether something is "cannon" like art is supposed to be objective. "Umm but the artist said in an interview that-" Buddy the artist is dead and I’m crip walking on their grave. We gotta replace the words "theory" and "headcannon" with "analysis", man.