Artist Statement:
I was unsure at first if the type of story I wanted to tell
would work, but I came to realize that it is similar to Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing. Olsen’s work does follow some type of chronology,
but instead of focusing strictly on time, it’s more of stages of life and the
emotions and difficulties that are accompanied by it. It is a thematic reflection more than an Aristotelian
structured narrative.
With the piece I produced, though I did follow things in chronological
order (with one flash back), really I was just sharing my process of discovery
as I came to learn more about the topic I’ve presented.
I purposefully chose to have more of what I often felt and
could not easily express large on the Power Point behind me. Some of it was a bit exaggerated, but that
was intentional as well. My initial
point is that because emotion is so hard to express I often hyperbolize.
I was a bit worried about the picture of the cow pie I
included. I wasn’t sure how people would
react to it and if it would be inappropriate.
I’m glad I kept it though, and actually liked the response I
received. I make sure not to stay on it
too long.
I was a witness again to the importance of sharing ideas
with others. I didn’t have a concise
ending to my thought process until I spoke to my friend Joslyn about my
idea. That was when she told me that she
and her boyfriend had had a similar conversation with her boyfriend and the
conclusion they came to that love needs to be involved in order to best show
emotion, there needs to be love for the other person. That brief conversation gave me the ending I needed
to my presentation.
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