9.01.2008
James G's Artist Statement
To encompass all your being into one word may be a depressing thought, but it also may be a way to understand what I work towards as an artist. In a world of high energy McDonald yellows and bright Coca-Cola reds, I strive for a cooler afternoon blue and a smile on the viewer's face. With that in mind, my word would be "relaxed." For the past several years I have been mixing my personal sense of humor with a splattering of different electronic media and an ever-expanding knowledge of different software in order to challenge my viewer to not only think, but, in this age of high stress and mass-information, smile. With our culture's ever-expanding library images and entertainment, the line between art and entertainment is increasingly blurry. My work takes advantage of that diminishing divide and uses the different technologies allowed to our generation to not only put forward an amusing image, but an interesting idea.
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Okay James, not bad. It's very sweet and I enjoy the way you get to your point-of-views. A critique I have is in the choice of words in parts of the statement.
"All in all, I "guess" my word would be "relaxed.""
The word "guess" just makes it sound like your unsure, and you should sound confident because its your take on your own art.
"Hopefully in using all of the different technologies allowed to our generation I can not only put forward an amusing image, but an interesting idea."
Same thing with "hopefully". You could word it differently to get the point across but sound more confident in your own thoughts.
ex// "I strive to..."
I understand what you mean, but other people may be picky. Just remember, this is how YOU intemperate your art so it can't be wrong. Just be assertive about it and stand behind it.
thanks Cody, :)
I switched up some of the vocab, expanded a sentence or two, and tried to make it more assertive.
For the past several years I have been mixing my sense of humor with a splattering of different electronic media and an ever-expanding knowledge of software in order to challenge viewers to not only think, but, in this age of high stress and mass-information, smile.
With our culture's ever-expanding library of images and entertainment, the line between art and entertainment is increasingly blurry. My work takes advantage of that diminishing divide and uses the different technologies allowed to our generation to not only put forward an amusing image, but an interesting idea.
{...An intersting idea that tends to do what? What do your interesting ideas do? Provoke?
play with irony? Attempt to implicate the viewer? Attempt to make fun of the media world while including the viewer as insider?}
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