Deborah Thuman on wed 12 may 10
The link (http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/05/06/bri=
tain-s-w=3D
orst-art-exhibition-at-birmingham-s-ikon-gallery-97319-26387778/)
has only one photo. Apparently there's more to this installation. Is
it good? How can I tell from seeing only part of it? Is a bowl great
if I only look at the foot? Who knows.
I've been reading The Gift of Asher Lev. Potok's character, an artist,
says the world isn't pretty. Yesterday, I talked to a client, and
looked straight into the sewer. It was not pretty and there's nothing
I can do to help the situation. How to put that in art. That's the
great question. What could I write, what could I draw, what could I
quilt, what could I make out of mud that would show you what I saw
when I heard what the person had to say? It's like when I was a sports
writer and went to hockey practice. I heard the sound of 40 skates on
ice and wondered how I could make that sound real to my readers.
How can I make my reality into a visual entity that you can
understand? How can I depict a system (justice, health, government....
take your pick) that's so overgrown and so broken that it can never be
fixed? Yet I and others work in this broken system every day trying to
make justice happen.
Art that shocks.... sometimes it needs to be that way. I've made some
shocking work. Why? Because I needed to make that work to be able to
make the work I'm now making. I have one piece that's never been
photographed and won't be photographed. I realize now it was the
gatekeeper piece. Had I not made that piece, I couldn't have made the
next series and wouldn't be making what I'm making now.
Deb Thuman
http://debthumansblog.blogspot.com/
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deb-Thumans-Art-Page/167529715986
Roland Beevor on thu 13 may 10
Dear Deborah
This will give you more, and there is a video of the artist, so you can
try to understand where she is coming from.
There is a word that describes this: precious.
Cheers
Roly
On 12/05/2010 23:15, Deborah Thuman wrote:
> The link
> (http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/05/06/britain-s-=
w=3D
>
> orst-art-exhibition-at-birmingham-s-ikon-gallery-97319-26387778/)
> has only one photo. Apparently there's more to this installation. Is
> it good? How can I tell from seeing only part of it?
--
Roland Beevor
Christison Particle Technologies Ltd
Albany Road
Gateshead
NE8 3AT
UK
+44 191 478 8120
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