For tomorrow (thursday) I am going to work on paper. I don't usually work on paper, and when I do, it's a little traumatizing. I get nervous painting on something that is somewhat foreign, but I think it will be good to try, seeing as how it is going to be part of my impossible installation/painting anyway. In the studio, I am going to start with the paper and with the ideas I have from this last painting, and I will see where it goes from there. At home, I want to start doing another stop-motion animation. I imagine painted "scenes" of three different rooms/spaces/environments. In each frame I am thinking of suspending, or hanging a different hybrid form. Fish-lady would be one of them, and I am also thinking of a half-pig half-man. I want to make a short film that can be played on a loop. I think I might start creating characters and scenes tonight.
I have also been working on writing up a new artist statement. Here is what I have so far.
The pictures I create feel uncomfortable but necessary.
In my current work, I am investigating the spirit of
hybridity and what the significance of half-human forms might mean in contemporary
art. In retrospect, many different cultures and artists have used hybrids in
art and I think it is often used similarly, perhaps revealing something about
the human experience.
Though I am making public pictures, they are private and
concern my personal psyche. I am interested in creating confronting images,
forcing the viewer into an understanding. I feel a certain amount of animosity
towards the figures I am portraying, which at the moment is a half fish-half
human form, but I also feel empathy. I am not particularly concerned with a
specific hybrid, but the significance of them in general.
These hybrids are the manifestation of chaos; they
“naturally” come from disorganization and do not fit inside of any category but
their own. These images allow us to
confront fears about ourselves that we cannot confront in a “normal” fashion.
