So I originally made this blog to post Sculpture II projects on, but I am going to venture into the world of real blogging and use it to ramble on about art. However, there will most likely be the occasional post on my disastrous cooking attempts or venting about the obnoxious drivers in St. Augustine.
So moving onto art stuff... I went into Barnes and Noble yesterday for some coffee and saw the April/May issue of New American Paintings (which by now everyone's probably seen and I'm just really behind). Completely flipped out about the cover (artist Justin Bower in case you need a reminder). I mean look at those marks and those colors. It's super exciting and it makes me really want to paint... too bad I'm insanely rusty at painting and I would probably get frustrated and lose my motivation.
Anyways, I flipped through New American Paintings when I was drinking my coffee. I can definitely empathize with Mary Laube's artist statement. I can't find it online so I think I have to go back to Barnes and Noble read it again. Her artist statement discusses the memory that places hold and the merging of those memories with our imagination of those locations. Her artist statement explains it a lot better than I am doing right now so you just need to go read it. She also comments on how our memories fade more with the passing of time. This is something I have thought about often in relation to my work. Time constantly makes me anxious only because it detaches me more and more from fond memories that I wish I could replay more vividly in my mind on command.
I also really enjoyed the paintings by Rebecca Wallace and Caetlynn Booth!
