i am aware of my quite poor blog keeping. i am envious of alex’s blog, it reads really well and i am drawn into his world.
i’ve been asked to do an interview.
thing is, just how far do i want the world to enter my world ? how far am i prepared to go in telling the world what i am doing? i’m in agreement with duffy and hemsworth that the work is the statement, and ultimatley, according to hemsworth the rest is bullshit. if the rest is bullshit, why is there so much emphasis on talking about the work? is it some sort of general lack of getting visual communication and thus it has to be backed up by traditional words, a kind of keeping an eye on the subversives. making sure that what the visual statement says isn’t too questioning and pushing the ideals of people too much.
i wonder if art as a service to the public is in danger of becoming very safe and fluffy and purely entertaining as we wouldn’t want to upset or offend the public, for they might not attend our show of our art.
gormley spoke about testing what it is to be human. what actually is it to be human? how many of us are able to truely individually say what being human is? asking questions seems to be the important thing, it’s something that is a function of intelligence and i think we are the most intelligent animal on the planet, so someone will offer an answer. answers to what though? questions set up by individuals we may never meet yet they have an affect on us. what happens when we can ask a question, do we ask it, or are we quiet as we spend so long being quiet.
if one meets a succession of people, how long before the pattern of quietness ness is noticed and the next time a meeting occurs, the silence is challenged by asking a question.
i was raised in a manner that has left me in a questionable position, i think i have to maintain questions, so i can ask questions of others.
and finally is a question the beginning of a conversation. if more questions were asked…would there be more conversations.
