Wednesday, November 4, 2015

My Voice


My voice as an artist has not yet matured completely. I am still exploring different mediums and ideas, and it changes almost every day. In the past I made a lot of work dealing with and questioning elegance, purity, and influence. I think I’d like to pursue some of that in more depth in the future, but as of right now in my career I don’t want to. It’s difficult to describe to you what my voice is, because I don’t yet know. I think in order for me to talk about it I need to have a greater understanding of what I want to pursue. Also, I feel that sometimes my work evokes a certain feeling or causes people to question things that I didn’t necessarily think about while making it. One time Willem De Kooning was listening to someone talk about and ask about his work, and he responded with a great quote that states, “Thank you, now I know what my work is about”. I think sometimes an artist doesn’t fully know what their voice is until they hear the responses from the viewers.

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