Karen Sullivan on wed 7 feb 01
Steven
When I have made things, in the past, I am not always
sure what I am doing..
So I turn the question back to the viewer, and then
listen and take notes while they describe my work to me.
Questions, like, uh, so what do you see...
which can be loaded, and it's success is dependent
on how visually literate your subject is.
It helps me understand how varied the responses are
to the images I make...
And the interesting process for me is how different
the words are that folks use to define and describe.
So, ultimately, we encounter the work as unique
individuals...which lends power to the response of
someone NOT liking what you do...and it's okay...
someone else will.
A fun test would be to discuss associations with
common objects and explore how varied the responses are.
bamboo karen
just a thought
> If we can define in words what the art "means" doesn't
> that make the art itself redundantly unnecessary? I
> still haven't figured out how to explain this with any
> elegance however. Easier to mumble something about
> being drunk at the time I made it and not remembering
> what I was thinking...
>
Mike Gordon on thu 8 feb 01
Hi,
I think you need to see the art in order to define any meaning for it.
So it is never unnecessary. Without the physicality of the art then any
defination or meaning we come up with enters the realm of... what is the
word??? You describe something and let the reader form his or her own
image?? Tooo early for my brain. Mike
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