Henry Darger

Was truly transformative.

Nobody talked about Henry Darger or any of these now famous people.

Mm-hmm.

There were Wolflys.

And you know, I think most artists, I mean, there are like the sort of rare people who do the work just for themselves.

Um, like, um, I'm thinking about like Henry Darger, some visual artists, or like Kafka or something where you're just like, you know, writing and writing forever.

And if it is released to the public, that's just, you know, a little bit of an accidental outcome or something.

And it's interesting to think about certain artists who did so much work throughout their career that now we know the bulk of I feel like Arthur Russell or something like that, where, um, we, during his lifetime, there was only like one album released and of course he produced things and did arrangements and recordings and stuff like that.

Um, so it's, it's an interesting thing.

Another o- outsider artist, Henry Darger, um, and I'll talk about him in a future episode for sure if, if the prompts so fall where they may.

But it is, it is such an incredible sort of aspect of art history that just in the past like 15 or 20 years has been like sort of studied more intensely, um, and becoming more of a, a academic pursuit, when before it was just kind of a, like a novelty, right? Like, you know, oh, this weirdo who, you know, uh, collected garbage and tinfoil and created this thing in his garage, like this single-minded focus that he, he had is just like so wild.

Um, but in fact, like there's, there's a lot of meaning that can be derived from it and, and connections that can be made to other outsider artists.