Filed under: art, general, growing up, love, money | Tags: art, cowboys, documentation, introspection, meaning, monks, nostalgia, painting, stuff
Thematically, my work is the product of three basic interests: Nostalgia, introspection, and documentation. [from crude home videos and cameraphone pictures to giant oil paintings.] At this point in my life, above all, I think I want to make art that I can hang around me, that will make me happy. But there is a possibility that by taking my good memories and feelings and aestheticizing them [by reproducing them,] hanging them all around me, essentially exploiting them and putting them to work, I will strip them of their meaning. But that’s a risk I’m willing to take. And actually, it’s something I’d like to explore. Because I’m not really a fan of meaning. Part of me wants to be a cowboy or a monk or something. Someone with nothing to loose.
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go for it
Comment by severnyproductions 08/08/2009 @ 5:41 am