My work has consistently focused itself on how to have a poetic relationship to life. Finding stories from the headlines, front page back page, personal narratives, dreams and the artist\u2019s connection to nature. I attempt to find ways of representing how meaning is made. Of late a special focus has been placed in creating work in situations where the image or object is found in a process of conversation with a viewer or visitor. This act of stripping away of personal authorship allows me to focus on the many choices of how something can be represented. Using this method of production reinforces a belief I have about the nature of art, and how an artwork when existing as a physical object becomes a souvenir of a thought.
\nI am very aware of how printmaking as an art form has changed over time and am excited by its continual relationship to conceptual matters of choice, and technique.<\/p>\n
Question:
\nThis was observed, so it should be viewed as truthful?<\/p>\n
Answer:
\nVacant raft<\/p>\n
Practice of art:
\nWe prepare ourselves for a phone call<\/u>.
\nWe research the migration of birds<\/u>.
\nTo make the choice of where to place<\/u> the birdhouse<\/u>.
\nMaking it useful<\/u> instead of lonely<\/u>.<\/p>\n
Process art:
\nThese are mine.
\nI\u2019ve chosen them, honed them, and shown them.<\/p>\n
Sometimes things prove themselves to be false.<\/p>\n
The beat-side of freedom is backwards: weiv\/view.<\/p>\n
I generate things, sometimes on paper, other times as encouragement to others.<\/p>\n
This stuff<\/u> takes stuff<\/u> to make the stuff<\/u>. The heart<\/u> of it is built with the heart<\/u> of other\u2019s activities, and thusly their hearts<\/u>.<\/p>\n
Putting to words:
\nWriters go first, burn quickly, enter doubt before others, and have the hardest time just being there, waiting.
\nWhat happened to the space between light and drag?<\/p>\n
The un-finish of one becomes a finish for many, representing the collective, a motif as connector.
\nRays of sunshine
\nChain
\nTeardrops
\nTape\/staple\/stitch
\nFestoon
\nLights
\nFlag\/dart
\nHeads<\/p>\n
What makes up a decision?
\nBeing, finding, making, and showing
\nShowcasing only the shown?
\nI\u2019m drawn to how things become meaningful to me.<\/p>\n
I look for the outward people, the lovers, and the givers.
\nI accept the thieves and the takers, but focus my attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Allowing the authorship to be from another puts the act of creating it into the second and third form of gift giving, causing it to attain a meaning (value).
\nThat succeeds in skipping or _________ the personal.<\/p>\n
All I want, seems to return to, all I need, examines, where I\u2019ve been, extorts, what it\u2019s not.
\nI\u2019ve sat in this chair, close to, why I\u2019m here, before.
\nIn that spirited lack of blood, tingled time.
\nResponsive to the many I\u2019ve never known except through their letters or actions.
\nWho have shared with me, not time but place.
\nLooking to create excuses to dwell, live well, in the freedom, they forged.<\/p>\n
Being creative in public: <\/p>\n
Sidewalks<\/i>, walking, standing vendor tables
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCafé <\/i>, table, kitchen
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStore<\/i>, counter, lunchroom
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPark<\/i>, blanket, bench, table<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIf I walked around it forever, I would have walked around forever.<\/p>\n
Can I represent who I am?
\nAlways a re (ly) ing (2) of life.<\/p>\nPassing on the gift, I received it, it compelled me to create this, take it now as the gift it is, ideas, stories, and understandings, something to stand on.<\/p>\n
Making Moral Fruit<\/p>\n
Gifts in motion: Broke, lost, pierced, used, burned.
\nLike the voices at the edge of sleep
\nParaphrased from L.Hyde\u2019s words on folklore<\/i><\/p>\nThe power of the gift is it\u2019s perpetual movement, never stopping, never becoming capital, I have avoided making for market, though the act of letting it go has always been special and desired.
\nHow can this understanding of gift be put to service in the creation of art.<\/p>\nCompleting the action, timeframe, start\/stop, restart?
\nHow does process build upon process?
\nDoes the adding up to, add up to anything?
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