My Newest Art Statement
It is so hard to talk about your own work to an academic audience without completely alienating anyone else.
Unless that is what you want to do...but for me, I am happy if you (the curator) or you (the art dabbler) or you (the art lover), or you (the high school student) or you (the recent MFA grad) or you (the critic), or you (the craft-tastic mom), or you (self-proclaimed unknowing one) or you (the collector) can read my statement, understand what I am going for and not feel like they you being patronized.
Because art is for anyone.
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My work involves the Landscape - both figuratively and literally. In making my work, circumstance, response, habitation, roles and community all shape how the landscape is inferred or represented.
Text, and Sky as metaphor are two themes that I frequently use.
In using Text, I am fascinated with the ways in which language can be confusing or clear - ultimately effecting how we engage with our environment and with each other. It is tangible, yet elusive. The Sky is a vast and unattainable component of the Landscape, indicative of what is known or venerable or suddenly - susceptible.
Processes I employ include painting, writing stream of consciousness lists, purging ugly and stupid things, hunting and gathering appropriated papers or every-day objects and seeing the sources for a new daily story.
In seeing, I look for similarities and differences, the grey areas in between and how no day is mundane.
-Leora Lutz 2009
Unless that is what you want to do...but for me, I am happy if you (the curator) or you (the art dabbler) or you (the art lover), or you (the high school student) or you (the recent MFA grad) or you (the critic), or you (the craft-tastic mom), or you (self-proclaimed unknowing one) or you (the collector) can read my statement, understand what I am going for and not feel like they you being patronized.
Because art is for anyone.
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My work involves the Landscape - both figuratively and literally. In making my work, circumstance, response, habitation, roles and community all shape how the landscape is inferred or represented.
Text, and Sky as metaphor are two themes that I frequently use.
In using Text, I am fascinated with the ways in which language can be confusing or clear - ultimately effecting how we engage with our environment and with each other. It is tangible, yet elusive. The Sky is a vast and unattainable component of the Landscape, indicative of what is known or venerable or suddenly - susceptible.
Processes I employ include painting, writing stream of consciousness lists, purging ugly and stupid things, hunting and gathering appropriated papers or every-day objects and seeing the sources for a new daily story.
In seeing, I look for similarities and differences, the grey areas in between and how no day is mundane.
-Leora Lutz 2009
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3 Comments:
Kia ora Leora from all the way down south in New Zealand - which, I imagine would generate a long loooong and beautiful cotton line from where you are!
I found your blog through the wonderful airform archives and am loving your take on the world - play, seeing the extraordinary in the everyday, and landscape - all of which are fascinations for me at the mo. i look forward to reading your thoughts-following-thoughts more :)
thank you christine!
i liked your entry on sounds.
i tried to comment to you but it didn't take.
here is what i wrote:
3. the ku-klunka of trains going by.
4. the bass-whirl of helicopters overhead.
thanks Leora - hopefully I've fixed my comments hoodacky now...thanks for your sounds - you obviously like the big bassy sounds yeah! thanks for your reply. have a fab week.
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