I have recently just seen the initial draft of the advertising poster for our show…and I think it is terrible. It looks as if someone has just found computers and photoshop and used every tacky function in the book..i mean..on the screen…spray paint and jaggedy images.,..you cant even tell what they are!
It’s ridiculous…now how do I get up the confidence to tell someone?!!
top [Thursday 22 Mar 2007]
MY REVISED ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is a connection;
a pathway that connects the artist with their audience.
Through this idea, I aim to produce work that can reach the viewer on a personal level, by evoking memories, exposing my own, and taking them through an experience that connects us intimately.
I am mainly interested in recording myself and others around me;
It is the notion of watching people and exploring the boundaries or ‘crossover’ between innocent observation and actually becoming an intrusive voyeur that truly intrigues and excites me.
The people of our world seem to have an obsession with being noticed. I share the idea that we are all worried that one day we will realise that our life has passed us by without us being recorded and thus not continuing to existing in some form after we have physically gone with writer Margaret Atwood.[1]
My audience is for not for the young as it can be quite intimate and could be unsuitable, but apart from that, it is for anyone: each viewer has the potential to develop characters within my story and thus become entwined with my memories.
I am continually writing down descriptions, feelings, notes on certain experiences in my many notebooks and incorporate parts of it into my freewriting when appropriate and where certain thoughts spark off connections to these recordings of past encounters.
My work takes the form of language and text within a performative context. Through live performances of typing, I have explored the act of writing, where time is overlapped, where the dimensions of memories in the past, and the record of people in the present are merged.
I am very interested in how the words appear on the page and fall
down
the page
and how each pause and how it is supposed to be read is shown through the spacing.
Through being personal and writing about private and intimate relationships and experiences, it creates a sense of awkwardness and the uncomfortable for the audience. I find this control that it gives me, a very important part of my work.
Within my work there is a continual theme of the idea of playing games and ‘role-play’. During the performances, I take on the roles and perspectives of different people, both real and fictional. Throughout the piece, there is persistent questioning on whether it is make believe or truth or a mixture.
When it comes down to it… it all really…
is just a game.
[1] ("Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we are still alive. We wish to assert our existence…At the very least we want a witness. We can’t stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.") (ATWOOD, M., Blind Assassin, P188)
