This is going to be a picture post where I upload some recent images and talk about them, then later on today I’ll upload a video and do a longer written post on what I’ve been up to recently.
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These images were from a little mirror experiment that I did in my studio space. What I wanted to explore was the angles and how images can be never-ending. It was fascinating to see how you can reflect in a reflection.
During this time I was still making portraits as well as exploring other ideas.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again) (1975):
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she’s four or five hundred pounds but she doesn’t see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she’s a beauty. And therefore, I think she’s a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. Ch. 4: Beauty
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like “charming” and “clever” and “pretty” are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down. Ch. 4: Beauty
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. “So what.” “My mother didn’t love me.” So what. “My husband won’t ball me.” So what. “I’m a success but I’m still alone.” So what. I don’t know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget. Ch. 7: Time
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
“I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself”
“To be a performance artist, you have to hate the theatre. Theatre is fake…The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”
– Marina Abramovic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/03/interview-marina-abramovic-performance-artist
