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Ok so i have been reading other peoples blogs for a while, in particular Mr. S. Lewis and Lydia Boehr. I have been thinking about lots of stuff but firstly here is a quote from an article with photographer/filmmaker Zoe Leonard that i am STEALING straight of Steve's blog. Thanks mate but it was so so brilliant in terms of summing up what i was thinking about last semester:
"Photographs play with the idea of absolute truth. When people look at a photograph, they believe it. We believe that it exposes reality. That a portrait can show someone's true character. If you see a picture of something, you believe it really happened that way. Pictures are proof. My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view. I want to draw the viewer into the process of looking so we can look at these things together. I want to show you what I see." ---> Zoe Leonard
Truth! Photography! Accepting images as reality! all such key ideas in one beautifully succinct paragraph.
So. Thinking things. Right now i am struggling a bit because i no longer have a project, something to aim for, work towards... an ultimate goal. It was to finish my degree, to graduate etc etc. This all sounds very melodramatic ahaha and its not meant to be. But yea i need a PROJECT> or something. Now i seem to have been sucked into the rat race already and have no time/energy for stuff that is outside of work! Lame! But i have to up my game.
Its like when i first started art school and i was in printmaking and they were like "ok so this is how you do an acid etching... now go do 3 plates and 12 prints by tmomorrow" and we all stood around like "ahhh so what the hell? is that all there gunna tell us?" because we had all come from high school were art was so prescribed and what we could do was handed to us on a platter.
Mission: Come up with a Project or a Goal. eg A series of prints or a series of work or similar.
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i'm glad that you dug the article. you're welcome to thieve whatever you like from my page, mi blog es tu blog? i'm not sure that that works as well. but the point is, awesome.
and get your head in the game, alex! i understand the spot your in, though. i've have to think a lot about why i make art since i've been here. and i realize that it's a kind of problem solving tool. i am presented with things that i can't find an answer to and attempt to work them out in a creative means, photos, installations, prints, interpretive dances. whatever. but the end product is a sort of reconciliation with that problem, me coming to terms with whatever i was thinking about. art is a negotiation in understanding my existence as a thinking/intelligent being on this planet and my perception of it. so when you think about what you want to do, don't think about the end product. think about what you have a problem with, what is an issue you don't have an answer to? i feel as if you probably already knew all of this. and that your process is probably the same because in the end i feel that every artist is doing this on some level with their work, but i don't know how conscious everyone is of it. and it's always nice to hear it once and a while.
also. maybe we should do a collabo? i'll be busy until i get all this thesis business really locked down but i could probably crank something out on the side for the ol' kiwi. let me know.
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