Curtis: June 2008 Archives

What is in an Artist statement? Its my statement, its about my work... right? So why is it so hard? I have tried many times to just sit down and write this statement. I know what I do, and I know what I like, but how do I put it into words? I am generally good at writing, but when it comes to writing about my work, I am absolutely stuck! How do artists do it? Where do you find the inspiration to write about your own work and find the guidance to know what to say? I need the answers to those questions to move forward with what I want to do.

Perhaps I should just collect all of the parts of statements I have started writing and see if there is anything there... until then, I guess I will just use a placeholder for my statement. Time to drag out the Latin generator (I bet someone I know will try to translate it).

As much as I enjoy blogging about my art here, it doesn't seem to happen very often, so I feel as though I should once again make a change to things. I feel like a more suitable alternative would be a true gallery style configuration for this site, or a separate site set up in a configuration like that. What does this mean exactly? Well, it doesn't mean use a lame photo gallery software to set up a site, that's for certain. I want to set up a site that is me, artistically, and just that, nothing else. I think I want to open with my artist's statement (I should probably write one) and then have users step through the site like they are going through an actual gallery. Images of each work will be displayed with their technical details and a few words from the artist (me) about each one. I think I want to give the user the ability to "step" into any "room" of my gallery they like (most likely by medium) and but the only other navigation is back/forward between pieces... like in a real gallery. The entire idea needs to be let out for some air before I start any actual development on such a site, but I think it would be really cool.