Press Play: Wiliam Kentridge
Wiliam Kentridge is an artist I found out about last year a drawing class. His charcoal films that speak of nostalgia, pathos, and politics, have made a deep impression on me. Though his interviews were mostly rather formal and conceptual, reading through his words, I found myself very comforted. One quote in particular calmed my frantic desire--fueled by a sense of obligation--to invent some grandiose philosophical statement of meaning attached to my works: "...drawing doesn't begin as a moral project; it starts from the pleasure of putting charcoal marks on the paper...drawings, in themselves, evoke larger questions."
Inside the Studio: Petah Coyne
Petah Coyne is an artist I found out through the book today. The photographs of her intriguing wax sculptures invited me to read her life story. The way she talks about her process of creating art seemed rather cliche and yet in a way, frightening to me: "I work with emotions and the shape comes. I can't have anybody help me because I don't know what I'm doing. I don't preconceive it." I am scared of failures, and I am lost if I cannot see where I am going. Perhaps it is time for me to explore bottom up rather than top down process.
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