After using this blog as a portfolio site for a number of years, I decided to take advantage of its intended purpose and use it as a platform to organize my thoughts. My initial desire for this electronic transformation is due to the amount of underdeveloped information that is freely floating through my head. It cannot self-sustain, not in a way that is productive to me. I need to do something with it: download, process, translate, make some sort of sense of it. My mind is a knot that hurts. I have reached the point in my work [my work being a product of something subconscious, something that is no doubt a result of my observations and learned material, of theory and history] that needs this kind of reflection.
I am hoping that by disciplining myself (and by discipline I mean a uniformity in my routine, not confining myself to the medium of writing) I can make some sort of sense, a deeper understanding.
In my recent practice I have come to realize what is most important to me as an artist. It is this process of exploration and sorting, of figuring things out and what they mean. One of my favorite quotes alludes to this idea “We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness”- Anish Kapoor.
See also: Why I Write, Joan Didion (image of author above)
For me, it is in the object’s existence as a multi-faceted, referential form, that I can reflect. Without it, I would be where I started, a knotted mess with no point of departure.
Things I am thinking about (based on readings and acknowledged themes in my own work):
The failure of representation and constructed realities.
Translation and the term “undisciplined”
