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posted by tom at 9:01 pm
Thursday, March 01, 2007
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10 Comments:
correct. i dont know.
same method as before? I would love to see it in real life to get the depth and the texture.
i like the enigmatic title. is it a secret?
also like the red ink for contrast. it looks very typewriterly.
give us a clue...
yeah, it's the same method as before. it's not a secret, but the result was more ambiguous than i intended. it's a picture of my face with some interference in front of it. it is typewriterly. now that i've told you what it is, can you see it?
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Hey Tom,
I found it quite intriguing but I have to admit that knowing it is a face, has turned it into a work less interesting for me. Funnily - as soon as one puts a "name" to something, it demystifies and seems to take the pleasure out of wondering and exploring what it might be (I know you wouldn't tell everybody who looks at it), which i feel is very much the notion of contemporary art at the moment. It's funny - it is the same thing with giving titles to art work. I am always very wary - and often I feel "untitled" suddenly sounds soooo good, but actually it's just an easy way out. My problem, as Franko made me suddenly click, is that I am sometimes too literal in my work and that I shall start using metaphors to express what I would like to. I assume that your work is abstract in nature and doesn't want us to see anything figurative - am I right?
yes, you are right, i think most of the time that's true, though not always. i usually try not to give the whole thing away, but maybe i'm too open when people ask me about it; sometimes it's better not to know.
strange that i can see a face now that i am told it is there. i did look before but i wasnt looking for anything and only so marks and spaces...i too like to look at something and not have to see anything figurative though of courrse a big part of the mind is so happy when something recognisable is there. as an arist i like to challenge what people expect.
Tom,if it is sometimes better not to know i would like to reiterate your question to me. in in answering it you will have a bit of my answer..."what is the point?"
because i am uneasy with questions like that as with "what does it mean" there is no point and there is no meaning outside of the act/object itself. (is performance and object? Is a story?
xx
for me the point in making my work is in experimenting, in developing ideas and in communicating. i have no problem with the result being open to interpretation or difficult to read, i think it can often be boring if it's too straight forward. sometimes it's better for people not to know because not knowing enables them to interprate it freely and to come up with their own ideas, without being imposed on too much. knowing too much can kill the intrigue.
i thought you were asking about the notion of an unrecorded performance without an audience, and i was questioning what the point would be in that, specifically in terms of a piece of 'art', because surely it couldn't communicate if there was no audience or record of it. i think your story was something else though, and i wasn't asking what the point was in that because it is recorded and it does have an audience.
this is my answer, it is not yours. even if you think the same thing, you can't just say that your response is whatever i would say!
being different people we will always have different responses but i said you would have a "bit" of the answer. i felt if the result was indecipherable could it still still be said to be "communicating?" and of course in the sense that it may encourage people to come up with their own ideas it is most definitely. but sometimes, and i am not referring to your work but to responses i myself have had, people just switch off dont they, and then i feel disappointed that i have failed to communicate. i often want to communicate a feeling/sense of beauty or wonder.
i must admit that communicating is probably the strongest drive for me
that and expressing myself.
(at this moment in time anyway!)
i dont know if you realized that i left two comments the last time. (same this time)one above this.
no, i read both of your comments. for me communication doesn't have to mean that i can know of have control over how it will be interprated. i see it more as exposing part of myself as a way of engaging with people. sometimes i like to be indecipherable, maybe that's what i want to communicate.
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