Brian Head is a pseudonym.

 

There was a cricketer in the 1970s called Brian Brain, of whom a friend said:

“Brain by name, Brian by nature”.

If the pseudonym needs explaining further to you, farewell and good luck.

 

The creator of this site uses other pseudonyms, but they shall not be discussed here.  It would be counter-productive to reveal other pseudonyms as the primary function of a pseudonym is anonymity, which becomes ever-more necessary in an online world.

But there is more to it than privacy: a pseudonym can prevent people reading the author into the art through an absence of information, forcing the audience into focusing on the artistic text rather than fabulating tales about the creator.

A commonplace error is the mistake of reading a creator’s personal life into their art.  Of course, sometimes artists draw on their personal life for material, but ideas are also lifted from books or something a friend has told them or [etc].  And then all things go through a transformation and come out quite different to any meaning in their original context, to serve the purpose of each artistic work.  Something from personal life can be used to say something completely unrelated to the person and, inversely, something completely unrelated to the person can be used to say something quite personal.

It is not the creator but the creation that matters.