as a theatre artist and really just an artist in general i think it’s so important to have a mom or close family who doesn’t make art because their opinion is essential to creating anything

like do you know how grounding it is to get an “uncultured” opinion from time to time? i’ll wax rhapsodic about a play or something and how brilliant it is and then my mom will see it and she’ll be like “it was boring and a little too long” and i’ll think about it and be like “you know what......it IS boring and a little too long-“

i’d also like to make it clear that this isn’t anti-intellectualism my mom is a very educated woman and a teacher (she specifically taught english lit at one point) it’s just the idea that art should be challenging yeah and deep yeah but sometimes people just want to watch something fun and a little shorter rather than longer