I’m the same as Coates. I don’t like defending or explaining my work. I too am better making more cartoons, art, and writing than I am constantly explaining them.
But there’s another deeper reason I don’t like explaining my work, and it has to do with the importance of deconstruction.
For me, the ultimate and primary goal of deconstruction is to realize and achieve our own spiritual independence.
That means becoming spiritually autonomous and self-determining.
In the religious culture I grew up in, we were always told what to believe. Everything was spoofed to us, and we would never dare branch out on our own to explore and discover our own thoughts about things.
We would have been told how to interpret this or that cartoon, rather than trusting our own interpretation of it. Rather than experience a piece of art or writing or whatever at our own gut level, we bypass our own gut and entrust the interpretation to an authority which we obediently accept.
Do you see what I mean?
I want people to feel empowered to decide what they think for themselves, rather than being instructed.
This is why I called myself the “NakedPastor”. It was because I wasn’t going to be a typical pastor who preaches at you what you should think, say, and do. Rather, I was going to be someone who is completely open, honest, real, transparent and vulnerable about my own life.
And you can take it from there.
Be empowered!
You get to decide how to be spiritual, and at an even more fundamental level, you get to decide how to be you.
Without explanation.
