I begin a painting with a series of mistakes…For me the medium of oil painting resists, more strongly than others, content cut off from external relations. It continually threatens, because of its motility and subtlety, to complicate a work beyond the simplicity inherent in a high order of abstraction. I attribute my increasing devotion to oil, lately as against the constructionalism of collage, to a greater involvement in the human world. A shift in one’s human situation entails a shift in one’s technique and subject-matter.
Robert Motherwell, 1947, statement
Stepping Back to Move Forward: Expressive Writing Promotes Self-Distancing |. Pedagogical Implications for Training those “Moody Artists”
[Pro-c Artist KWIC] knitting my | ASS | hairs together might be preferable Cantankerously HEXed: The trait of Agreeableness + Honest-Humility amongst visual artists [Big-C + Pro-c]
Social SENSE–what if
Somatic Compliance and the Dream Fragment :: Deriving a Derivative from the Dora Case Study
Theories and schools, like microbes and globules, devour each other and by their struggle to ensure the continuing of life. – Marcel Proust
“Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn’t, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.” — Kiki Smith
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200807/final-analysis-kiki-smith-creative-struggle
Joan Didion — “Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.”
identity management: countering the burden of stigma [Erving Goffman + Sally Mann]
