artists statement
Art can convey powerful messages, both conscious and unconscious, about body and mind. Making images is effective therapy for those confronting serious illness and can help those coping with pain and debilitating symptoms to identify feelings of pain through visual language
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I do have to agree that when you let your emotions and interpritations of whats going on inside you show in your art not only is it therapy for both you and someone else who may be going through something simmaler.
I really wish that more people, even those that say they "can't draw" would embrace the fact that art isnt always about technical skill and the rendering of the peice but rather the feeling and emotions.
I personally can say that the peices that most people love out of my body of work are peices that are the biggest peices of crap, but because i poured myself into those peices i guess it shows in them.
okay... im done with my rant and yes, i totally think it is you.
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My art has been heavily influenced by the above approach, and my personal struggle with Crohn’s Disease. It is a chronology of life with the disorder, intestine, bacterial references, consumption of pills/food, and vomit. ((when i read this i thought you were consuming vomit. i would either put vomit before "consumption..." or perhaps say "vomitting".))
Sewing, stitching, wrapping, quilting, knitting, various found objects together to create an ethereal effect, transforming the everyday objects into my visual vocabulary of intestinal forms. ((this isn't a sentence, first of all. secondly, if it WERE a sentence, it should read: Sewing, stitching, wrapping, quilting, AND knitting (no comma) various found objects together to create an ethereal effect, transforming the everyday objects into my visual vocabulary of intestinal forms.
and THEN additionally it should be made into a real sentence.))
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