It’s one thing when a stranger laughs at your art. It’s another when someone who knows you well does. Who laughs matters. A friend scrolling your website and snorting at an image. A partner chuckling at a line in your artist statement. A respected curator friend laughing during a performance, but not at the moment you expected.
Those laughs land differently. They don’t feel like feedback. They feel like exposure. And in that split second, something primal happens. We think: I’ve done something wrong.
In this episode, I slow this down. Uncover the four things happening in that moment so you can keep everything in context.
