Manifesting Meaning

Process is where i love to be situated with my art practice.  Beginnings and endings are much more challenging for me.  Having recently finished school and now set with the task of getting my work out into a public space - the requirements for most public gallery submissions is connected to meaning.  That meaning is often dictated to be “current”; making a statement relevant to a current broader perspective.  i tend to stew and simmer in process.  Eventually, meaning bubbles up.  It tends to come from a very personal place because it has been living in me.  i am always questioning my currency.  i work slowly and eclectically.  It doesn’t help that i get bored easily which means that many ideas may be in development at the same time - often with no obvious string of thought to link them together which is where deciding on beginnings and endings becomes problematic.  My work is ongoing and meaning can get lost…or side tracked…or just so buried in process that it is a struggle to break through the surface to sort out where it is all going.  i’m in one of those spots now, trying to  to see what it all means and whether or not i am current…which puts me at a point of beginning.  

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