Damn dude, I like this sort of thing. It's awesome that you're so gripped into doing this from the heart, I really admire that. I myself have been having a hard time with that lately. I get a lot of self-doubt from doing art, and I wonder if that makes me weak? Some days I want to just not do art anymore. I feel like I've lost that passion behind it all.
I get really self-conscious about my motivations behind the artwork I create. I feel like I'm doing it because I want to. I feel like I'm doing it because I want to improve and get better, for myself. But then, I post things places, and sometimes I expect a certain reaction (note, not saying what kind of reaction). Although, when no reaction really happens, I notice I get upset and discouraged. Then I realize, maybe subconsciously I was doing it for the wrong reasons to begin with.
Makes me wonder some days if I'm doing it all for the wrong reasons or not, you know?
VicariousE
IS being an artist perpetual? I used to consider myself one, though setting up and filming action, then putting the bits together, is nothing like what goes on here (except for maybe the audio Portal; music can be made by lots of cutting n pasting, and still be original). Anyway, that was a long time ago, 15 years... and like you, I considered concept/context more valuable than how I did it (with stone knives and bear skins/linear videotape and optical techniques).
Dunno why I said all that, but felt that this newspost has been unduly ignored...
mematron (Updated )
I think that our creativity make us artists. I suppose that you could say that we are all artists. I believe that art is energy and can being potential or kinetic. It's a choice to tap into that power and it's perpetually at our disposal.