Believe it or not, I can actually draw. – Jean Michel Basquiat
(Get your head out of that box, silly.)
Art that makes you think is beautiful but that doesn’t always have to be the objective. It should create all kinds of reactions. In terms of experience, I often feel that I’m the toddler of the art world, stumbling and grasping at ideas, trying to sort out a jumble of thoughts, many of which fail to take form. I make lots of messes and rarely have a clear idea of what I am doing. Or what I really want to say with my work, if anything. Moments of clarity and vision can be fleeting, as well as confidence. (Yet somehow, there it is, all around me, finished artwork. Boggles the mind.)
Inspiration for me comes from so many sources. One great source is other artists. They remind me that we are all in this together, making art despite our crazy selves.
Perhaps it is just that some artists are fickle creatures. We always want to create, the form of expression changing as we grow, whether it be medium or technique. I can only speak for myself as a painter; I am slowly realizing that when I simplify everything around me and just play, without preconceptions, concerns about marketability or meaning, the most satisfying creation is revealed and I feel that I have made something worth sharing.
