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’ “.

4.07.2010

A thousand dreams would awake me

"different colors, made of tears"


It is the 7 of April 2010.

I have not written in a thousand years.
I have collected things: a needlepoint piece about a light-bulb-popping-monster that I have yet to hang. A new plant. Drawings from Little Otsu.
I have been photographing...finally. A few rolls of 120. One of which I accidentally shot without realizing it was positive film...I hoping for something great to come of this.
I have been missing the east coast: mainly for the days of sun and warmth when it rains here, and for the sleepy mornings, late nights, and good food with my parents.
I have been re-arranging things: or at least, attempting to--rather, wanting to, planning to.

There are shows coming up:
MGMT at the Fillmore, April 12th
Little Dragon at the Independent, April 13th
Passion Pit, April 15th
Holly GoLightly, April 17th
((I need to get tickets for the last three))
and
at SF Camerawork: First Exposure's "Looking Forward, Giving Back": reception & presentation on April 21st.

and, I want to see Romeo & Juliet at the SF Ballet in May.

What else, what else?

OH I know: My neighbors are playing Neko Case's "Pretty Girls".
I am singing along, through the floorboards.
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