Art-ist State-ment

I cannot be quieted. I am constantly questioning and searching—attempting, however fruitlessly to quell the insatiable need to learn, to find answers, create solutions and thus, eventually, search for new problems. My drawings are observations of internal debates raging within myself, and how I truly relate to the outside world. I am searching to understand both the physical but also the metaphysical difference between brain and blood and heart and lung—where do these things exist in relation to the outer persona, and to others. I am interested by the complexity of the human psyche—the beautiful waste of life due to psychological trauma, disease, or deficiency. The mixture of memory, history, health, deterioration—it is all my fascination.

Through large-scale charcoal drawings, mixed media, film photography, and free verse, I record observations. Whatever realities I am looking for need not be limited by my own experience: in fact, experiences of others prove often to be more relevant than my own. I sense nostalgia for events, people, things, I have never—or rather, have yet, to come into contact with. It is impossible for me to live according to date and time. Most succinctly put—and to quote the late Richard Avedon—“ ‘…I haven’t lived chronologically. No one does’ “.

4.22.2009

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He who knows the world as being
is me: I am
the witness of existence.
In the truth of the I lies the truth of being
This I know for certain
-Rabindranath Tagore, “Last Poems 2”, 7 May 1940



Given that I haven't posted since July of 2008, it is rather necessary to update this page. I have since moved to San Francisco in August and have been working at a small women's clothing boutique in the Upper Haight. Art-making has seriously been dismal. Sketchbook drawings have been the most I have done. I finally loaded up film in my Diana and took a few rolls of film while vising San Luis Obispo in central California. I am looking forward to developing the film and thus scanning/posting the images. I will be posting images from my sketchbook that will hopefully turn into larger scale projects.

I haven't been reading as much as I would like. Or drawing. Or writing. Things have sort of stalled in some respects--I almost miss eight hour critiques from Senior Thesis!
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