When looking for material to use for my graduation work, I found some old footage of when I was ten years old and acted in a scene where I played a character of a woman that recently graduated from an art academy. Her graduation work was a photography series of portraits of pets with bright backgrounds. When graduating 'again', I was slightly jealous upon seeing that clear vision. I wished that I could just make pets with bright backgrounds as graduation work – then I remembered I could.
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I am always questioning my artistic agency. I often feel quite distanced from artisthood - I feel like I'm performing artisthood rather than that I am an artist. If making an artwork becomes performing a trick, a way to postpone the moment when I'm going to be exposed as a fraud, then what drives the perpetuation of being an artist? |