Right now is a time of solitude. I am becoming a recluse. I am suffering from severe senioritis and i don't want to do A NY THING! I am so bored out of my mind with photographs right now. Everything has turned into a chore, a systematic way of life, where i feel like even the art world falls into a robotic ignorant state of mind. I thought the art world would bring me away from this but really the art world is just a different version of roboticism. We have our own language, that when you stop and think about it, is absolutely absurd. "I really enjoy this image because..." God if I hear that one more time my brain is going to explode through my corneas. Along with: This image is "painterly," "juxtaposition," "your since of light," etc. Im just so sick of it all that it is draining all inspiration i once had. We've become so soaked and marinated in the "art world" that we start making "art" for only the art world; art that can only be understood by this absurd language and that looses all its meaning because the art is just another form of materialism for this world. We envy it, we lust after it, we create it, we become a slave to it, we conceit it.
Anyways, it's times like these when I retreat back to music to give me a since of direction and placement in this world. Today, Bjork is helping me do that. Everyday I am realizing that I need to stem out from photography. A flat still image is boring me. I have more than that. I feel more than that.
enjoy:
Saturday, March 15, 2008
System Overload
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Hi Elise,
This is Nikki. I know exactly what you are saying about photography. I went through the same thing my last semsester with printmaking. I found myself making little collages in a sketchbook and not working on my prints and finding more joy in small sketches than what I majored in. I realized it was my mind's way out...finding joy in art though not the way I normally did. Check out esty.com for some inspiration. It's completely devoid of the hifalutin terminology, but I think a new form of inspiration. I don't know what will be the answer for you, but I am finding new ways to appreciate art and be inspired that don't require equipment or printing materials or much money, but they still engage my eye and hand, and for me, that's enough. Hope all is well otherwise!
correction: etsy.com
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