Friday, November 20, 2009

hello, brave world

("eggs", etching, 2009).

"creating a work of art is in effect the setting up of a world...in terms of truth...providing a space to dwell" (Heidegger)

Of most things I am unsure:
Probably makes sense since I am an F, feeling, on the Myers-Briggs test.
Of the blog world I am very unsure. It seems everyone's blogs that I read have intent, purpose, a well rounded and focused image, and seem like they have it all together. But then again, thats how we view "everyone else" in the material people non-web non-texting present reality, and, at least in that world, everyone doesn't have it together. So no longer shall I be shy of starting a blog post such as I am not shy of starting a conversation!

Of this I am sure:
I love beauty. And stuff. And the "marrow of life" as Walden calls it.
I make a lot of art. But it is everywhere. Physically. It lives on borders of post-its or collaged cards or on sketchbook pages or on my walls or on my floor. Sometimes it gets deconstructed and reconstructed into something new. I want a way to share and receive criticism and a way to organize all of my favorite places on the web. The web, to whom, I as a charcoal-on-my-hands artist am trying to fit into my materials based work. So here it goes...

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