A cup of tea
I was told I was weird. It was meant as a compliment (at least that's the way I took it!) It was followed by, Who thinks up this stuff?
I got into art for one reason really. I think up things that have no other practical application other than to be translated visually into something that can be hopefully thought about.
In poetry there are layers of meaning put into the words that become pictures in the imagination of the reader. I feel art, at least the art that i really am drawn to does the same thing.
Truly good art is multi-layered and operates in our cerebral being that is touched by our emotional states and questioned. Not everybody wants to over-think what they are looking at, but most want to feel something.
When someone doesn't understand a piece they dismiss it quickly and thats a shame. I operate with the idea if I don't understand it, i want to know why I don't and aI delve deeper and as a result end up with a pretty incredible experience with a work of art that even the artist couldn't have planned.
Warhol said something along the lines of "I just make it, its up to you whether or not you want to look at it!" And i think thats true.
I am working on a number of things when I have time that I can't concern myself with whether or not someone will understand it or even like it, or even consider it art. I can't even concern myself with whether or not I will understand it or like it or even consider it art.
I work on the pieces and all have so many thoughts going on around them that i sometimes find myself explaining them and fumbling all over the words. "It means this and that and oh yeah i was thinking about this and then that and oh back a few years i had an idea similar and did this then that ….and it gets sorta nuts!
This is why artist write broad statements that may or may not make sense. They explore this or that! They investigate this or that. I sit down to write a statement and try to define myself and my work and 28 pages later I decide no one is that interested to read this, including me.
This series I'm working on now involves hair and vessels of some sort. All of my work is somewhat self portrait in nature even though I use other people. There are so many things a vessel means that each piece says something different. Hair is this stuff that continues to grow even after we die (hopefully like our soul). I am using a table with a white cloth for many reasons as well but one is purely formal--simplify things!
The more I explain the many reasons I'm putting into each piece the more confused about what they mean myself and this tends to stymie the work so I try not to think too much about it. I think its best to work--develop ideas and let each thought filter through when it does, but certainly not putting down as some doctrine or even recipe to follow. Let each piece find its way to what it is supposed to be.
I believe a piece becomes 'art' when it reaches some level of poetry. Something that has beauty to the viewer but also has a mystery that makes you want to learn more and perhaps investigate its meaning or investigate the emotions it stirs within. Above and below are a couple in my series that right now in my mind are touching on, or at least hinting towards a poetry. As the creator I'm not really one to know for sure.
I'm weird remember?
I got into art for one reason really. I think up things that have no other practical application other than to be translated visually into something that can be hopefully thought about.
In poetry there are layers of meaning put into the words that become pictures in the imagination of the reader. I feel art, at least the art that i really am drawn to does the same thing.
Truly good art is multi-layered and operates in our cerebral being that is touched by our emotional states and questioned. Not everybody wants to over-think what they are looking at, but most want to feel something.
When someone doesn't understand a piece they dismiss it quickly and thats a shame. I operate with the idea if I don't understand it, i want to know why I don't and aI delve deeper and as a result end up with a pretty incredible experience with a work of art that even the artist couldn't have planned.
Warhol said something along the lines of "I just make it, its up to you whether or not you want to look at it!" And i think thats true.
I am working on a number of things when I have time that I can't concern myself with whether or not someone will understand it or even like it, or even consider it art. I can't even concern myself with whether or not I will understand it or like it or even consider it art.
I work on the pieces and all have so many thoughts going on around them that i sometimes find myself explaining them and fumbling all over the words. "It means this and that and oh yeah i was thinking about this and then that and oh back a few years i had an idea similar and did this then that ….and it gets sorta nuts!
This is why artist write broad statements that may or may not make sense. They explore this or that! They investigate this or that. I sit down to write a statement and try to define myself and my work and 28 pages later I decide no one is that interested to read this, including me.
This series I'm working on now involves hair and vessels of some sort. All of my work is somewhat self portrait in nature even though I use other people. There are so many things a vessel means that each piece says something different. Hair is this stuff that continues to grow even after we die (hopefully like our soul). I am using a table with a white cloth for many reasons as well but one is purely formal--simplify things!
The more I explain the many reasons I'm putting into each piece the more confused about what they mean myself and this tends to stymie the work so I try not to think too much about it. I think its best to work--develop ideas and let each thought filter through when it does, but certainly not putting down as some doctrine or even recipe to follow. Let each piece find its way to what it is supposed to be.
I believe a piece becomes 'art' when it reaches some level of poetry. Something that has beauty to the viewer but also has a mystery that makes you want to learn more and perhaps investigate its meaning or investigate the emotions it stirs within. Above and below are a couple in my series that right now in my mind are touching on, or at least hinting towards a poetry. As the creator I'm not really one to know for sure.
I'm weird remember?
Dinner conversation
I am everything at once