Hermes is the name i ended up choosing for the animal. I wanted to find a name that encompassed the idea of movement, of traveling, while simultaneously being a bit fanciful and familiar.
I am trusting that Hermes will make his way through Grinnell with little molestation. However, I look forward to watching his progress and seeing what happens.
I am full of questions: Will people understand the directions? Will people be willing to play along? Will there be any buzz surrounding this animal? If there is, will it be negative or positive? Have I explained enough? Is it even that interesting?...Did I include the right insides?
There are many misgivings, since I've never done anything like this before.
Except that one time when Anna and I made posters trying to get Jeff and Alex dates...and they didnt know about it til later...
I made posters for Hermes too. Two color screen-prints.
I want people to interact with art, to allow themselves to be a part of it. I have a need to interact with others, and i would like to put that in the art work now. At the same time, sometimes, in my drawings, i think i struggle with trying to express merely my aesthetic sensibility. Which is a very different thing altogether. I am conflicted over whether the art should be separate from the world, though clearly that can not happen, and the idea that people should be allowed into that world of art. The common person allowed into art. It conflicts with my aesthetic sensibility though, when other people are allowed in. i have a snooty streak, i guess. i want to be in control. but at the same time, i dont agree with being in control. so there are always conflicts.
09 March 2008
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kiri-- Reading reminds me that I'm happy you're going to be in G-town making art, and also that I'm sad we don't have classes together anymore. hmmm.... maybe someday we can go to the same MFA program? Wouldn't that be fun?
What you write here (and above) is great. What am I going to do without critique/studio/art talk?
You should pick this blog back up, lady, so I can read it when you update.
--verb
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