What it means to be seen, and to see each other. Pictures always searching for wildness and for the freedom to operate on their own terms. Our ability to construct a personal narrative and to establish a sense of identity depends on our recollection of past events, the most significant of which are inevitably associated with emotions. How fragile and precarious and preposterous it was.
Does an objective beauty exist at all? The work should speak for itself, there’s a need to express joy.
We don’t need to understand everything, nor even to figure out what to do to express complex ideas in a visually compelling manner. This sketch harkens to that eerily. But to see the big picture requires looking outside the art studio and, of course, many artworks, like a large portion of these, don't matter much.
Art is a signalling system using patterns and pattern recognition for human communication. When in doubt, ask someone.
If being visible is a trap, is there solace to be found in near-invisibility? Toggling between the familiar and the unknown, kitchen goblins know the answer. Everyday art is everywhere around you and looking to cooperate with friendly household spirits, you should do that, it’s fun!
Contemporary stuff is more about ideas than danger signs, but how can some whimsical artist solve my problem? There were a lot of things that made them unique. In the words of André Breton, Surrealism aimed to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.
There is no future in the past. How important theoretical thinking is, how it is a force for good: The canvas will wilt before I finish my painting. I don't see these situations as congruous.
Fit your round peg into theoretical square hole if you like.
I knew that something had to change, but none of the obvious options were appealing. Graphic art is a great boredom killer since empty brains are the devil's shop. The new information age might not always aiming at bending the rules, unruly artworks do have a point.
The juicy part of every artwork is done using the mind, not the fingers, and beautifully crafted objects. In everything, there is light and darkness, yin and yang, bliss and sadness, ephemeral and sometimes intangible art environments.
Paintings drawing attention to the ways in which individual and collective memory collide to shape history and geography, and ultimately, the present. The canvas will wilt before I finish my painting.
Life is art like that of a moth to a flame.
Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars. Entomologists have long exploited insects drawn to lights at night by setting out light traps whenever they want to collect insects. Poets have reached for the image of a moth drawn to flame to signify self-destructive behavior in works ranging from “The Merchant of Venice” to the Hindu epic the Bhagavad Gita.
The absurd nature of art making in your attempt to create a logical coherent meaning in life and to avoid the very absurdist nature of life. We don’t need to understand everything, nor even to figure out what to do with the mind’s internal creative engine.
侘、寂、幽玄
It can’t tell the difference between an image of a body in an artwork from a sentient one. From weakness to strength, birds as symbols of vulnerability and the need for song. Such is life's challenges. You will have gathered if you didn't know already, a hermit crab out of its shell is a metaphor for the artist's life and death. Complexity is uncertainty.