This reading was by far my favorite
of the semester and the most relevant to my own artistic vision. In the last
year or so, my work has moved further from representation and more to
abstraction. I want my work to focus more on the spiritual and emotional
aspects of reality that I can’t put into words, so I make them into images.
While I find my images rewarding for myself, it’s hard for people outside of
the art world to appreciate them because of the problems Lyle Rexer mentions
in, The Edge of Vision. People
instinctively want to make something of what they see and know how and why it’s
made. My goal is the complete opposite of that. My thesis work is a great
example of this. I feel like once people know that the images are ink and food
coloring they’re satisfied, but they end up completely missing the interaction
I want them to have with the images. Abstraction asks the viewer to rely more
on their emotional response to the work than purely analytical.
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