Art Making
this work is fraught with mistakes and errors. It's also a reminder that painting, and all art, is a lie.
There’s a reason the first letters of the word ‘artificial’ are ‘art’. Human beings crave deception—we need to see each other’s narratives. We make art so that we have an excuse to stare at each other.
Peering into someone else’s heart grants us
... See moreBy this definition, art is less an object and more a process of exploration.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
To build up “a huge archive of thinking and feeling” seems a necessary project for any artist, even without publication as the eventual goal.
Mason Currey • Sharon Olds’s Huge Archive of Thinking and Feeling
you need a good place to have some bad ideas.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
"A Head Full Of Fears"
Mixed Media on Canvas
100 x 80 cm
Available
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“As my friends paint that picture, you will be subjectively giving form to what my friends already comprehend. Think of Thelonious Monk. Thelonious Monk did not get those unusual chords as a result of logic or theory. He opened his eyes wide, and scooped those chords out from the darkness of his consciousness. What is important is not creating
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