painter, animator, everything! very happy to talk about art and learning
once again in a pinch over trying to elocute what these pictures Mean or why they are Important and Necessary for me to make
what meaning do you take from my work? what do you think the content is? do you get that, or are you just attracted to the form? is the formalism interesting content in itself in any way? aa!
it is probably important I figure a better way to talk about what I'm doing soon. external perspective would be appreciated 🌞
it's a lot like looking out a foggy bus window. idk these people or their deal, but i dont feel any kind of solicitation being placed on me to answer that either. it's kind of just abstracted into something that moves past you. so i guess the form is the attraction for me. I really like your stuff to be clear. I guess what I'm trying to get at is it appeals to me in the way that camus talks about kafkas writing as being a slice of reality absent any kind of moralizing or prescription for the viewer. that's how I feel towards your work
i appreciate this description quite a bit. there's some distance, observations, bits of life, not quite 'purposeful' (as most things and experiences aren't), just content to exist and be in the passing moment.
thank you very much for taking the time to write!
The form is what draws me to your work, I think. I’m not a particularly smart dude when it comes to Meanings, so I’ll typically approach a work by how its visuals impact me.
What appeals to me in particularly about your work is the way you tend to contrast or reinforce a “focal” or “central” image with busy or muddled imagery and patterns surrounding it. There will be hints of imperfect replication, or words or doodles meant to catch the eye and provide additional emotive flavour.
This creates, for me, something that’s particularly engaging. I can’t say what it necessarily means in any given situation, but the form draws in the eye and mind, so it works.
I’m not sure if the above is dumb or pretentious, but I hope it helps!
I'm a formalist at heart, care in the drawing and playing with materials is important to me! I like catching some more traditional figure with experiments that obscure and fight against and complement. The visual is usually what I'm thinking about the most, rather than a more explicitly defined and sayable intent. There's a feeling, and what makes a picture done to me isn't something I can word out.
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it!
got too much brainfog to articulate much but I like your textures and how you... abstractions; abstractions seems to be rare in online art spaces (popular media and furries etc being almost entirely of Forms)
Just the form can be cool, but I want to play with it more, make it into a composition, let it be material and odd and mix languages !!
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it!
adjectives that come to mind when i think of your work: raw, embodied, feral, bold, textural, impressionistic. i find the perspective expressed in your work cogent and compelling, there's such a dynamism to it, perceiving it is a felt participatory act to me. i don't think content so much as let the art hit me like a wave — when i say "embodied", i guess that's where the meaning is for me, somewhere beneath words that i could attempt to articulate after the fact, but it would be a bare shadow of what actually feels important and unique about your work, to me. even in this digital medium, it activates my senses, my awareness of being a creature. and i can only imagine that's heightened when perceiving it in person
affective over cognitive !
there's a messiness, unrefined edges, hints at my hands always. i think this is how i experience it too, for the most part. it's about compressing some of the energy of relations and living and study into these books. i wish i could let everyone see them in person
thank you very much for writing !
I really despise the constant push for Artist's Statements that summarize in essay format what everything that went into a piece Means, they strike me as more of a bureaucratized way to avoid engaging with art and file it appropriately without having to look at it. If what I was trying to convey boiled down artfully to a paragraph about how I feel about a person or Current Issues or whatever I'd just write the fucking paragraph and save a lot of hassle!
Which I guess means I like em because they look cool, and they're important and necessary because of the exact set of reasons the specific person or institution demanding the writeup wants reflected back at them, usually they'll tell you what that is
thank you for the time!
i also have an unfun experience with this generally and think a few minutes looking at a portfolio is infinitely more helpful than poring over the words justifying, but such is required to beg for money from grants and submit applications and so on
Oh yeah I get it; I've just struck out consistently trying to write about process or what I'm trying to accomplish with some project or what I see in it and have a fair rate of success with the exact same body of work when just awkwardly rephrasing the organization's mission statement point for point to make myself the subject. Occasionally writing about how fucked up my life is instead works too but that's just depressing to even contemplate
