Words are funny things. They hold meaning yet are intrinsically meaningless arrangements of letters that make up our entire mode of communication. And these meanings change. Awful once meant impressed or filled with awe, and being called nice meant you were more of a fool than someone enjoyable to be around.
Yet bold is a word that has maintained its valiant stature and grace through centuries, surviving births and deaths of empires as a badge of honour. To be bold is to be courageous, confident and able to take risks, yet what that means for everyone is different. We all have boundaries and interpret conventions differently; to that extent, an action can never be universally deemed ‘bold’.
Or can it? Nothing is truly fixed in a world where we are both the jury and the judge, especially in the creative parts. Defining one’s meaning, both semantical and literal, is brave and commands respect because you go against the grain. Yet the act can also be so simple because it is about being unapologetically true to oneself, whether or not that aligns with society’s expectations.
Here, we invite eight multi-hyphenates spanning the disciplines of music, fine art, movement and image-making to join this conversation. They give their two cents on what they think being bold entails and how ‘being bold’ takes shape in their lives.
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