And in Filterworld, making art without the goal of it being consumed is almost unimaginable. It’s the opposite of the way a painter like Carmen Herrera, who didn’t achieve fame until her nineties and passed away in 2022, toiled in obscurity on her minimalist canvases for the better part of a century. Today, it can often feel like there is no creativity without attention, and no attention without the accelerant of algorithmic recommendations.
