GREAT MANIFESTO. It feels like you took what I’ve banging the drum on inside my head and put it into tangible words. Especially the part about avoiding lessening a unique idea with irony/novelty/relatability.
I keep realizing when I find new art that I respond to is that my first thought is often “Wow, you can DO that?” and my second thought is “Why did I ever think you COULDN’T do this?” So expanding possibility space is clearly an ongoing process for me, if not all of us. That’s what I like about places like itch, it allows me to be surprised more!