"Strange and varied are the ways of life, and stranger still are the ways of Infinite Intelligence, through which men are sometimes forced to undergo all sorts of punishment before discovering their own brains, and their own capacity to create useful ideas through imagination."
- Napoleon Hill
Started drawing again - stuff has been hit or miss lately. Just trying to get back into my old habits.
More to come soon...
from the "Dreams" series.
"Visual artists are conscious, and unconscious, agents of mass dreams, allowing forbidden or forgotten images to surface, reinforcing aspects of identity that provide pride and self-esteem, countering the malignant imprint of socially imposed inferiority. As namers, artists participate in an ongoing process of call and response, acting in the space between the self- or individual portrait and the cluster of characteristics that supposedly define a community."
-Lucy Lippard, Mixed Blessings.
We are in the process of packing and moving out West to Colorado.
The next couple weeks will be hectic so I will probably not be posting very much on the blog.
Stay tuned...
Alison Saar doesn't fuck around.
When I was younger I dreamt of becoming an Art Conservator. I stacked my courseload with as many Chemistry and Art classes that I could. I became obsessed with memorizing dates, periods and movments in Art History... and then I started oil painting. Seduced by the media and creative release of art-making I decided to put all my chips in and transfer to art school - best - decision - ever.
Art maintenance (conservation) sucks. Yet, it has to be done. I have spent the last couple weeks (and counting) working on performing "Art Surgery" on a couple of my larger paper-mache sculptures. Considering that it was my first time working with the media on such a large scale AND learning the process along the way - I figured at some point I would have to perform some repairs. There is something rather liberating about taking a Sawzall to your sculpture and knowing that it will be okay. You built it once, so this time it will be even stronger.
