Thanks everyone. I might just be projecting myself on to him...so if I like some art or poetry I get quite excited about it and feel something (sometimes I eat it but that's a different story) so if I show him something and he doesn't feel anything or say much, I just feel like he doesnt like it. I know he won't say he doesn't like it to my face, then it leaves us in a strange in-between nothingness place which I'm not comfortable with. It also makes it much less likely for me to show him any art stuff again.

Saying that, I have a friend who shows me his poems all the time...I have no idea what they mean and they definitely do not speak to me in any way or make me feel anything, but still he keeps sending them.