Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2015

Three Statements to Fend Off Artistic Paralysis



If you are fortunate, a time comes when you have to accept who you are and you stop trying to put a label on yourself that will be accepted by others.  I am an interdisciplinary artist that puts words on paper, photographs, paints with light and pixels and makes videos and films.  People say it’s impossible to be successful if you don’t concentrate on being good at that one thing.  It may be true.  I am also guilty of telling this to people and believing it.  But I’ve also accepted that success as defined by society may not be my truth and destiny.  My truth is that my success depends on continuing to have the privilege to make art on my terms.  If not successful, at least I am lucky.  And, although it unsettles me to admit it, happy from the joy I get from this freedom.  I hope my destiny is to make art until I die.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” N. Hill


Self-portrait at MOPA with moon backdrop.







"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected." Robert Frank









"It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph." Robert Frank





Lee Friedlander "Route 9 W, New Mexico"




"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." Diane Arbus 


"Girl with patterned stockings"




Jerry Berndt





Bruce Davidson


This photograph blew me away. I could not stop looking at it. This is exactly what we strive to do with words first in a screenplay: to tell a story visually. Wow. Just wow.



"Most of my pictures are compassionate, gentle and personal. They tend to let the viewer see for himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art."  Bruce Davidson


The photographs below were not part of Streetwise, but I decided to put them up for my own reference.









Here's a short clip of Miranda July's first feature. She looks younger in real life.