Endings
I have never been good at writing endings. I realize this now as I struggle to come up with a compelling idea for my own self-imposed art assignment which is based on the prompt: ENDINGS/CLOSURE.
How did this even come about...rather than talk about an ending, here's the beginning....I was talking to some co-workers who also felt creatively stagnated by the relentless pace of life and being a worker bee. So I optimistically said,'let's give ourselves an assignment...endings!' Leading me to tonight, I am looking over a group of my old photos and projects and it occured to me I often try to not have an ending in a lot of my work. I did a book that never concludes and allows the femme fatale archetype to be suspended, never punished or killed as she is inevitably at the end of the tale. Much of my video work is meant to be on loop on purpose, never ending. Maybe its a misguided and small attempt at immortality...or not moving forward...not aging...what's that about. Nascent Peter Panism? Magritte...sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.
How did this even come about...rather than talk about an ending, here's the beginning....I was talking to some co-workers who also felt creatively stagnated by the relentless pace of life and being a worker bee. So I optimistically said,'let's give ourselves an assignment...endings!' Leading me to tonight, I am looking over a group of my old photos and projects and it occured to me I often try to not have an ending in a lot of my work. I did a book that never concludes and allows the femme fatale archetype to be suspended, never punished or killed as she is inevitably at the end of the tale. Much of my video work is meant to be on loop on purpose, never ending. Maybe its a misguided and small attempt at immortality...or not moving forward...not aging...what's that about. Nascent Peter Panism? Magritte...sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.