So I made a couple of artist's statements in my journal this morning. Which one shall I turn in?
Monday, January 14, 2008
Fiction and fantasy...
I am procrastinating. Today I have to send my artists statement to the gallery that is hosting the exhibit I'll be in next month. I hate writing artist statements! I mean, what other profession requires you to, on a fairly regular basis, write a statement to explain what you do and why you do it????!!! Does my pharmacist have to hang a statement next to his work that says, "I became a pharmacist because as a child I thought the little colored balls in bottles in my grandmother's medicine chest were fascinating"? No, other professionals have licenses. Well. I could live with that. I could take a test every ten years, and carry around a little piece of laminated paper to prove that I passed it. And not have to write artist statements.
So I made a couple of artist's statements in my journal this morning. Which one shall I turn in?
So I made a couple of artist's statements in my journal this morning. Which one shall I turn in?
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i see you are wearing your new shoes in the first! ;)
Of course! My artist shoes! They make a statement, too, don't they?
You're on to something, Kathy! That artist's license is a keeper.
Woudn't it be more fun for viewers too if artists really wrote statements like yours?
I think your statements are great. I would like to see signs up in every place of work: "I became a dry cleaner because I like the smell of mothballs"; "I became a teacher because I my feet were to large to be a ballerina"...
Oh Kathy you have made my day! I absolutely agree about artist statements....I have just been refurbishing my CV for the coming year, but thankfully no artist statement....
Pam in wet, hot, mildewy Queensland.
Cally, wouldn't that be a hoot? A bit more than most folks would put up with, though, so why do we?
Good luck with the CV, Pam. Must do that myself, too, soon.
Merna, I am tempted to adopt these as my 'official' artist statements! I think they're much funner than the one I submitted to the gallery today. Oh well!
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