I have drawn several (hundred lol) pics of women in coffins, in front of coffins, walking away from coffins....I sculpted an 5.5 foot coffin and placed a styrofoam sculpture of a distorted pregnant female figure.
Coffins are symbols but not always of death. Maybe just fear, just a trap, a womb or cage you are afraid to be out of.
When i think back to the images in first art show to the ones i am making now it is such a progression (in skill i hope but also in visual imagery) Guess I am telling a story, here. Guess I am Illustrating my life. I hope - I dream - that maybe one day i will be able to HELP someone, somehow with my images and experience.
The E.D. was one thing, the Depression and Anxiety was one thing...S.I. was one thing...One thing I don't ever want to hide or lie about but one thing I FOUGHT LIKE HELL TO OVERCOME
for years. And i drew that fight. Of course I don't want to glamourize the struggle, the starving or the blood even though at times, doesn't it glamourize itself? It does to me but I know that is part of the trick. Part of the comfort of being sick.
Anyway i am hovering but im hovering high right now! I have another new painting to post i just need some natural sunlight to photograph it and it has been toooo rainy here.
My Tulsa trip (to see the boy and to see Sonic Youth) was fanta-bulous and here is a pic of me downtown being verrrrry happy!!!
So.
why would a person get out of a coffin yet insist on
carrying with them everywhere?
4 comments:
your artwork is dope. its tells your story. thru the good n the bad / highs n lows.
To me that is as genuine as you can be as an artist. A flower does not grow in one stage, neither should art.
Honesty is your greatest portrait.
Respekt.
it seems like a healthy sign that she's walking away from the coffin...?
your work is incredibly great, on many many levels.
i plan to use Measure Me in my blog as soon as i write one worthy of it. i'm feeling a little uninspired in my blogging. can't seem to say what i think/feel too well.
:-)
Thank you guys!
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