Artist Statement
Stand Up Comedy is where it is at and my current favorite form of art and loving life next to teaching art and riding horses and grooming horses. If you want an artist statement about art for the most part please read below:
Artists for the most part need to express themselves, their soul and their emotions in one way or another. It does not mean drawing in pencil, or carving in wood is the only medium or techniques an artist can use to put themselves out there in the world and be seen and heard somehow. Being noticed and appreciated, or just being witty, ironic, or a trouble maker pushing boundaries or somebody's buttons is a major need for all artists. Recognition. Now this recognition can fall into 2 cateragories, positive attention as the artist from others showing the appreciation and admiring you settling you into a safe place within your peers or community. Or you can be getting negative attention for your art and be cutting edge, a wild man, a threat to the very nature of the fabric of society, our common decency, the public good, blah, blah , blah. Yes, I think some shock art is only made to make someone sick, grossed out or uneasy. Just as most of the extremist protesters with a "cause" are little more than confrontational people and agitators who latch on to an idea or problem in order to try to control everyone else around them but never themselves and their own lives or their own emotional mental issues and personal problems or their actual huge flaws. Most film buffs and art history buffs like and in fact love the artists or creators who made something with heart in it and made a cool film or painting by giving both audience and the filmmaker creator what they wanted, amusement or entertainment something to become drawn into and captivated by right away. People often make the mistake that popular art is good art, or that a hit film at the box office means it is a good or worthwhile movie. They are very wrong and naive/clueless, things people remember are not all these big production films or the art of todays rich art star of the last 2 years. Trends fade away faster than a 38 year old woman's looks. If a big production movie has no soul and no connection to you watching it 15 years later it is just a movie that had made it's money but now is a real waste of anyones time. The low budget films only a few select people saw or knew about at all before that have an energy and connection to people who decide to watch the film win out, because they did a better job, and made a better film, one which people would still enjoy and have fun seeing many years later. The whole idea of popular art and commercial art versus independent art or movies I find pretty questionable. I guess it kind of is who has more of an independent non censored or outside controlled voice and means as an artist or filmmaker, a story teller. Independent artists, writers, filmmakers, storytellers won't have the huge backing of their products and as such won't be as well known unless they get thrown in jail or sued and on the news, but then the news is the one making the commercial endorsement word of mouth advertising for you. Some artists make art to get peoples positive attention and approval from others, some people make art that they hope to stir people up about and cause a commotion with gaining the sought after negative attention approval. Negative attention is still getting attention and getting noticed. Artists and filmmakers do not often feel full as the artist or complete till they have the commercial or success with collectors and viewers and the fans/followers. Once they are taken seriously and a money making commercial success then they no longer feel like an independent artist but a work for hire sell out making the product others want them to make, not the story, art, or film they would want for themselves to watch, make, see, or hear. That is the whole catch 22 of no recognition or success and career you don't really think you are fully an important artist. Once you become well known and a success you do work or projects for other peoples tastes or jobs that pay well but you do not care about emotionally inside so you make a disconnect away from truly expressing yourself or baring whats inside your soul and wants to make it's way out of you into the world. Now you are just a hired gun doing work for others. You have all the perks but none of the trust in yourself that your art is meaningful more than just a commercial product to be bought and sold to make someone else money. That folks is the reason why everyone loves the mentally insane loner hermit unknown tormented outside artist discovery made once every 5 to 15 years when the artist is an old feeble man or when he has died and someone discovered all the artwork and we have have a new art star phenonemon genius in our mist, only the dude is now rotting 6 feet below the ground. But the rest of the world can enjoy and appreciate his art and expression of his soul and artistic voice. The next Van Gogh type discovery always beats out any Elton John or Lady Gaga, type superstar. A superstar be it in rock and roll or the art museums is a commercial product and commodity to, In the end it is all about who likes you? Who loves you? Do you like or love yourself? What do you have that you find bring you hope and is rewarding and something enjoyable in your personal life. Are you able to survive, are you safe from the elements and from harms way and protected from sickness or bodily injury to your persons? Do you have food, shelter, a place to eat, sleep, or use the bathroom at? Do you have people who will try to hurt you emotionally or attack you physically? If you want to be you against the entire world going head to head to them everyday you can I assume find pleasure in that of having an enemy your always very busy and occupied being up against and going to fight in a constant show down match as your life's work?
I have been drawing and sculpting since I was 4 years old. Somehow as a small child even as young as the first grade I knew that I was an artist. I remember in the first grade some of the boys in my class were drawing ghosts with a black marker and their ghost drawings looked better than mine and I was very upset that if I was the artist why did they have a better ghost drawing than me? I know that as an artist as in life that you will never be the best at anything, that there is always someone better than you at everything in life. Even the best artist at painting, drawing, or sculpture knows someone else is better at it than they are. But what you can bring to it and influence the world and others around you as an artist is to inspire, captivate, or make an impression of some kind that hopefully is memorable and long term with your audience.
Artists are dangerous people to dictators or authority figures who do not like or want an opposing point of view. The first thing a dictator will round up after a coup overthrow or taking power of a country is to round up all the artists, writers, critical thinkers, intellectuals, and anyone open with sharing their ideas to those around them that might not flatter or could openly condemn the oppressors in power. Some of the best artists in the 20th century were in the Nazi party in Germany. Leni Riefenstahl the filmmaker and director and Albert Speer the architect were amazing artists with a strong vision and sense of composition and connecting to the masses their message. But they were evil and dangerous to the world because their art, movies, architecture, and propaganda helped Hitler and the Nazi regime kill the Jews and take over Europe and the world had we not stopped them. Artists somehow can sometimes make a connection to society and the people around them, in today’s world street artists like Banksy and Sheppard Fairey have made a mark on art and western society world wide with graffiti and street art on the walls of regular buildings. I myself am not into their artwork, nor do I honestly think highly of it, but others seem to care about it and have a connection to the street art genre. The movies of film and now the Internet can showcase artists. With cinema and the movies many storytellers chose to make films instead of poems, sculptures, or paintings, as they would have used as their chosen mediums of expression had they not been alive during the invention of the camera and the movie camera.
I myself am finding that as an artist I am taking the Americas funniest home videos era of the mid to late 1980’s I grew up in where everyone video taped their kids lives with an affordable video camcorder approach with my hd digital video camera I use. My camera is not high end, but it is very portable and allows me to film and upload my films I shoot and within minutes showcase them online on Vimeo or YouTube for people to see and watch. I would not call myself a great filmmaker, I know that I am an amateur, but small amounts of people have watched my films and been exposed to me as an artist. Artist today whether they paint and draw or make instillations or do spoken word poems need to document their artwork and to reach their audience not from inside a gallery or magazine but from a personal artist website or a blog, or a YouTube video channel. I am glad that I jumped on board and got with the times 5 years ago when I started my artist website. I filmed many short 2 to 6 minute movies about artists. This provides a net of a social networking site where other people can see the brilliant minds and talented people around me that I see and interact with and feel inspired by every day. Not everyone wants to have a video clip about them up online for the world to see because they are very shy or do not want to be associated with me for their own image and career they present to their art dealers and collectors. If they are not online they are behind the times and will quickly be missing out on future exposure if they try to get noticed the old fashioned way in printed materials or in art galleries through word of mouth. Nobody sat down and taught me this, I just learned this on my own and I am still seeing what works and what does not work for artist handmade no budget films. People have shorter and shorter attention spans and they do not go to the movies as much as they go online and to social networking or entertainment user uploaded content websites.
In our postmodern art world we will find that, as more artists are online making movies and websites and virtual content that the art world will change and shift from what was expected. As people text and email each other more and more as a common form of communication the face to face social skills and interactions and encounters get more and more fast paced and awkward, because face to face, you no longer have a computer to hide behind to have a safe disconnection to the person you met or interacted with. But online Internet access can allow anyone on earth to meet each other and get to know or interact or expose their talents to the whole world. The prison warden in the Philippines would never have been a world wide superstar before the internet with his all prisoners review of dance numbers filmed out in the prison yard. People from around the world look at my website or videos everyday. Some are phishing or looking for pay pal accounts, or personal identification to try to steal from me, but many actually look at my content. The Internet has allowed me to find a richer voice and meet new people I would have never met or at least said hello and introduced myself to otherwise in a pre-internet social websites era.
Love, passion and romance is what drives me for almost all of my dreams and goals in life. I love art history and as one of my long time passions I have over 8,000 art books I own and collected over the years. I can sometimes fall madly in love with a woman, if I meet someone who is so unique and special and one of kind that in my eyes and with my heart I think she is the girl of my dreams. This does not happen all that often and certainly not everyday. But as a hopeless romantic artist my whole life love and the women who I pursue and fall for inspires me very much in my art and in my every facet of my life on a daily basis. I dream of one day having pets and a wife and a family. I often express that in my art, or use my art online in hopes that a dream girl will consider me a possible suitor through seeing my art, blogs, or website. I can find the pets I want to one day adopt on a pet breeders website. You did not have this availability before the Internet.
I am behind the times when it comes to all the apps and popular technology out there now. The advanced smart phones that are high functioning user-friendly computers and map navigators with apps to make life easier to us, if you know how to use one or can afford to own it.
Today what artist’s need to decide after learning the basic to advanced art foundations in drawing, sculpture, composition and techniques is to figure out how to express themselves, to who or which audience are they trying to reach and why they choose to make the art the way that they created it both online and in actual real life. I think that with the Internet the world has gone a lot more global and that artists should embrace that openly to reach a broader wider audience with their artwork and inspiring ideas they are willing to share with all of us. If you only make art just for yourself or just for those in your immediate lives you will be either a famous outsider artist discovery one day long after you are dead, maybe a positive impact on those immediately around you in your life, or not living up to the potential audience you could have spoken to through your art and your artist voice.
I still want an actual wife and real life pets in my daily life, I don’t want a wife who I only get to see and interact with online who lives far away from me, or a digital toy pet that needs a battery or electrical plug to work, I want a real living breathing pet. Artists embrace technology but need to still have a love and connection to real life, other people, and the outdoors away from a computer in some enclosed room to solve all their problems or keep them entertained. Online entertainment is going to be at war with the music industry, movie studios and sports organizations of who gets how much attention and approval from their fans and the general public. Lines will be merged and crossed but I believe that real life will still win out over just staring at a computer screen indoors isolated from other real life human interactions and people are still going to be with other people around them at all the kinds of various events offered to us in American society. Otherwise we will be like the lazy fat ignorant maggot like men and women in a giant sized TV baby carriages in the pixar science fiction drama movie Wall-E.
Artists for the most part need to express themselves, their soul and their emotions in one way or another. It does not mean drawing in pencil, or carving in wood is the only medium or techniques an artist can use to put themselves out there in the world and be seen and heard somehow. Being noticed and appreciated, or just being witty, ironic, or a trouble maker pushing boundaries or somebody's buttons is a major need for all artists. Recognition. Now this recognition can fall into 2 cateragories, positive attention as the artist from others showing the appreciation and admiring you settling you into a safe place within your peers or community. Or you can be getting negative attention for your art and be cutting edge, a wild man, a threat to the very nature of the fabric of society, our common decency, the public good, blah, blah , blah. Yes, I think some shock art is only made to make someone sick, grossed out or uneasy. Just as most of the extremist protesters with a "cause" are little more than confrontational people and agitators who latch on to an idea or problem in order to try to control everyone else around them but never themselves and their own lives or their own emotional mental issues and personal problems or their actual huge flaws. Most film buffs and art history buffs like and in fact love the artists or creators who made something with heart in it and made a cool film or painting by giving both audience and the filmmaker creator what they wanted, amusement or entertainment something to become drawn into and captivated by right away. People often make the mistake that popular art is good art, or that a hit film at the box office means it is a good or worthwhile movie. They are very wrong and naive/clueless, things people remember are not all these big production films or the art of todays rich art star of the last 2 years. Trends fade away faster than a 38 year old woman's looks. If a big production movie has no soul and no connection to you watching it 15 years later it is just a movie that had made it's money but now is a real waste of anyones time. The low budget films only a few select people saw or knew about at all before that have an energy and connection to people who decide to watch the film win out, because they did a better job, and made a better film, one which people would still enjoy and have fun seeing many years later. The whole idea of popular art and commercial art versus independent art or movies I find pretty questionable. I guess it kind of is who has more of an independent non censored or outside controlled voice and means as an artist or filmmaker, a story teller. Independent artists, writers, filmmakers, storytellers won't have the huge backing of their products and as such won't be as well known unless they get thrown in jail or sued and on the news, but then the news is the one making the commercial endorsement word of mouth advertising for you. Some artists make art to get peoples positive attention and approval from others, some people make art that they hope to stir people up about and cause a commotion with gaining the sought after negative attention approval. Negative attention is still getting attention and getting noticed. Artists and filmmakers do not often feel full as the artist or complete till they have the commercial or success with collectors and viewers and the fans/followers. Once they are taken seriously and a money making commercial success then they no longer feel like an independent artist but a work for hire sell out making the product others want them to make, not the story, art, or film they would want for themselves to watch, make, see, or hear. That is the whole catch 22 of no recognition or success and career you don't really think you are fully an important artist. Once you become well known and a success you do work or projects for other peoples tastes or jobs that pay well but you do not care about emotionally inside so you make a disconnect away from truly expressing yourself or baring whats inside your soul and wants to make it's way out of you into the world. Now you are just a hired gun doing work for others. You have all the perks but none of the trust in yourself that your art is meaningful more than just a commercial product to be bought and sold to make someone else money. That folks is the reason why everyone loves the mentally insane loner hermit unknown tormented outside artist discovery made once every 5 to 15 years when the artist is an old feeble man or when he has died and someone discovered all the artwork and we have have a new art star phenonemon genius in our mist, only the dude is now rotting 6 feet below the ground. But the rest of the world can enjoy and appreciate his art and expression of his soul and artistic voice. The next Van Gogh type discovery always beats out any Elton John or Lady Gaga, type superstar. A superstar be it in rock and roll or the art museums is a commercial product and commodity to, In the end it is all about who likes you? Who loves you? Do you like or love yourself? What do you have that you find bring you hope and is rewarding and something enjoyable in your personal life. Are you able to survive, are you safe from the elements and from harms way and protected from sickness or bodily injury to your persons? Do you have food, shelter, a place to eat, sleep, or use the bathroom at? Do you have people who will try to hurt you emotionally or attack you physically? If you want to be you against the entire world going head to head to them everyday you can I assume find pleasure in that of having an enemy your always very busy and occupied being up against and going to fight in a constant show down match as your life's work?
I have been drawing and sculpting since I was 4 years old. Somehow as a small child even as young as the first grade I knew that I was an artist. I remember in the first grade some of the boys in my class were drawing ghosts with a black marker and their ghost drawings looked better than mine and I was very upset that if I was the artist why did they have a better ghost drawing than me? I know that as an artist as in life that you will never be the best at anything, that there is always someone better than you at everything in life. Even the best artist at painting, drawing, or sculpture knows someone else is better at it than they are. But what you can bring to it and influence the world and others around you as an artist is to inspire, captivate, or make an impression of some kind that hopefully is memorable and long term with your audience.
Artists are dangerous people to dictators or authority figures who do not like or want an opposing point of view. The first thing a dictator will round up after a coup overthrow or taking power of a country is to round up all the artists, writers, critical thinkers, intellectuals, and anyone open with sharing their ideas to those around them that might not flatter or could openly condemn the oppressors in power. Some of the best artists in the 20th century were in the Nazi party in Germany. Leni Riefenstahl the filmmaker and director and Albert Speer the architect were amazing artists with a strong vision and sense of composition and connecting to the masses their message. But they were evil and dangerous to the world because their art, movies, architecture, and propaganda helped Hitler and the Nazi regime kill the Jews and take over Europe and the world had we not stopped them. Artists somehow can sometimes make a connection to society and the people around them, in today’s world street artists like Banksy and Sheppard Fairey have made a mark on art and western society world wide with graffiti and street art on the walls of regular buildings. I myself am not into their artwork, nor do I honestly think highly of it, but others seem to care about it and have a connection to the street art genre. The movies of film and now the Internet can showcase artists. With cinema and the movies many storytellers chose to make films instead of poems, sculptures, or paintings, as they would have used as their chosen mediums of expression had they not been alive during the invention of the camera and the movie camera.
I myself am finding that as an artist I am taking the Americas funniest home videos era of the mid to late 1980’s I grew up in where everyone video taped their kids lives with an affordable video camcorder approach with my hd digital video camera I use. My camera is not high end, but it is very portable and allows me to film and upload my films I shoot and within minutes showcase them online on Vimeo or YouTube for people to see and watch. I would not call myself a great filmmaker, I know that I am an amateur, but small amounts of people have watched my films and been exposed to me as an artist. Artist today whether they paint and draw or make instillations or do spoken word poems need to document their artwork and to reach their audience not from inside a gallery or magazine but from a personal artist website or a blog, or a YouTube video channel. I am glad that I jumped on board and got with the times 5 years ago when I started my artist website. I filmed many short 2 to 6 minute movies about artists. This provides a net of a social networking site where other people can see the brilliant minds and talented people around me that I see and interact with and feel inspired by every day. Not everyone wants to have a video clip about them up online for the world to see because they are very shy or do not want to be associated with me for their own image and career they present to their art dealers and collectors. If they are not online they are behind the times and will quickly be missing out on future exposure if they try to get noticed the old fashioned way in printed materials or in art galleries through word of mouth. Nobody sat down and taught me this, I just learned this on my own and I am still seeing what works and what does not work for artist handmade no budget films. People have shorter and shorter attention spans and they do not go to the movies as much as they go online and to social networking or entertainment user uploaded content websites.
In our postmodern art world we will find that, as more artists are online making movies and websites and virtual content that the art world will change and shift from what was expected. As people text and email each other more and more as a common form of communication the face to face social skills and interactions and encounters get more and more fast paced and awkward, because face to face, you no longer have a computer to hide behind to have a safe disconnection to the person you met or interacted with. But online Internet access can allow anyone on earth to meet each other and get to know or interact or expose their talents to the whole world. The prison warden in the Philippines would never have been a world wide superstar before the internet with his all prisoners review of dance numbers filmed out in the prison yard. People from around the world look at my website or videos everyday. Some are phishing or looking for pay pal accounts, or personal identification to try to steal from me, but many actually look at my content. The Internet has allowed me to find a richer voice and meet new people I would have never met or at least said hello and introduced myself to otherwise in a pre-internet social websites era.
Love, passion and romance is what drives me for almost all of my dreams and goals in life. I love art history and as one of my long time passions I have over 8,000 art books I own and collected over the years. I can sometimes fall madly in love with a woman, if I meet someone who is so unique and special and one of kind that in my eyes and with my heart I think she is the girl of my dreams. This does not happen all that often and certainly not everyday. But as a hopeless romantic artist my whole life love and the women who I pursue and fall for inspires me very much in my art and in my every facet of my life on a daily basis. I dream of one day having pets and a wife and a family. I often express that in my art, or use my art online in hopes that a dream girl will consider me a possible suitor through seeing my art, blogs, or website. I can find the pets I want to one day adopt on a pet breeders website. You did not have this availability before the Internet.
I am behind the times when it comes to all the apps and popular technology out there now. The advanced smart phones that are high functioning user-friendly computers and map navigators with apps to make life easier to us, if you know how to use one or can afford to own it.
Today what artist’s need to decide after learning the basic to advanced art foundations in drawing, sculpture, composition and techniques is to figure out how to express themselves, to who or which audience are they trying to reach and why they choose to make the art the way that they created it both online and in actual real life. I think that with the Internet the world has gone a lot more global and that artists should embrace that openly to reach a broader wider audience with their artwork and inspiring ideas they are willing to share with all of us. If you only make art just for yourself or just for those in your immediate lives you will be either a famous outsider artist discovery one day long after you are dead, maybe a positive impact on those immediately around you in your life, or not living up to the potential audience you could have spoken to through your art and your artist voice.
I still want an actual wife and real life pets in my daily life, I don’t want a wife who I only get to see and interact with online who lives far away from me, or a digital toy pet that needs a battery or electrical plug to work, I want a real living breathing pet. Artists embrace technology but need to still have a love and connection to real life, other people, and the outdoors away from a computer in some enclosed room to solve all their problems or keep them entertained. Online entertainment is going to be at war with the music industry, movie studios and sports organizations of who gets how much attention and approval from their fans and the general public. Lines will be merged and crossed but I believe that real life will still win out over just staring at a computer screen indoors isolated from other real life human interactions and people are still going to be with other people around them at all the kinds of various events offered to us in American society. Otherwise we will be like the lazy fat ignorant maggot like men and women in a giant sized TV baby carriages in the pixar science fiction drama movie Wall-E.
