..project number two...
artist statement:
To me, this work is about being content. It is about being trapped in materials and other people's answers. It is about confirming discovery. It is about being wrong. I believe that the joy of your own discovery, is far more rewarding then being told your work is succussful. Discovery is so essential, so necessary. It is so appropriate to be confused, to be muddled, to be unsure. we preach clarity. get your ideas organized. get your thinking stright. but its unguarded intuition and the persistence of own feelings that guide us to our discoveries.
response:
"it might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're young. but the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. at the same time i like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing. we can't possibly know what it is we really need. at least, from the view point of originality, we can't."
To me, this work is about being content. It is about being trapped in materials and other people's answers. It is about confirming discovery. It is about being wrong. I believe that the joy of your own discovery, is far more rewarding then being told your work is succussful. Discovery is so essential, so necessary. It is so appropriate to be confused, to be muddled, to be unsure. we preach clarity. get your ideas organized. get your thinking stright. but its unguarded intuition and the persistence of own feelings that guide us to our discoveries.
response:
"it might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're young. but the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. at the same time i like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing. we can't possibly know what it is we really need. at least, from the view point of originality, we can't."