Authenticity is the idea of taking risks, placing yourself in a vulnerable situation and learning to accept failure if it doesn’t work, it means expressing a theme or an idea in a unique and honest way and it’s how you communicate effectively and personally with your audience. The definition of authentic is “of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine.” In todays world we are tasked with trying to figure out if people are truly authentic as society is altering the minds of all and cloning us so that we are all the same. Artists are not taught how to be truly authentic, so were we ever really authentic or do we just claim that we are?

This being said, the key to being authentic is people themselves. The level of authenticity lies in the ideas people have with the reasoning behind them. Authentic people create authentic work and these are the designers who stay true to themselves and don’t change to try fit into society. These designers however, run few and far between, and are slowly dying out as there is no longer much creative freedom in that clients tend to have specific ideas of what they want, which not only creates hold backs but also suppresses our creativity which can be detrimental to artists.

Authenticity doesn’t mean that you have to reinvent a craft entirely, it means be yourself in it’s simplest term, which is why I believe it is possible to be authentic.

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