Rewritten in full ownership of my emotions and beliefs:
It weirds me out the actual things I look to when I post my art online, as though I'm not really sharing a gift with the world but putting my gifts up for inspection, as though if my work does not receive comments or views, my work is not worth reading and so my creation therefore unworthy of being.
This is why I hesitate to post, why I no longer search for reviews, because I love my art,
I want to find a healthy manner in which to send it out into the world without checking on it, getting slightly obsessive as if comments & views validate me as an artist.
I am a creator, as everyon