Creative Process

I am currently sitting in my studio, thinking a lot about what I want to create and show on Friday for the Advanced Sculpture show. I thought I would work out a lot of what I am thinking in the form of my blog. So you guys, thanks for listening to my ramblings. Small talk wise-it's f**king cold out! oh my gosh. Did I move to Hoth? I don't remember things being this bad last year, but obviously after 22 years in the midwest I have really selective memory. Speaking of memory, that is something I have been trying to dig up what to convey about this subject matter. My fears: I feel like every young artist tries to deal with this subject matter at some time, and I myself have delved into the subject matter coming up with only bits and pieces.

An artist I have been looking at a lot is Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. I'm looking over art now and they describe foerester as someone who "tests various vocabularies of the imagination and memory." That is something that really intrigues me. The idea of crawling into people's memories, and more importantly i guess their imaginations.

"I want to transform the viewer into a detective, generate a seeking spirit for a research for a curiosity for other stories unless it is one's own: to stress the importance of all kinds of narratives as self-languages, and the values of clues or vocabularies."- this is a quote from Ms.Foerester, and I completely understand and hope to emulate such a reaction in a viewer someday.

I have been experimenting with this kind of language, thinking about would reach the viewer, produce a strong narrative that the viewer can use their imagination to fill in the blank, maybe that blank will be nostolgia, or whimsy--

if you want to see the result of my ramblings please come to the advanced sculpture "We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful." show Friday at 7pm in room 120.