Meeting with Kurt. Number 4our.
After speaking with Kurt today, I realized I wasn't having fun with my research. I lacked the time commitment to enable me to do the research I feel is necessary to construct strong final pieces. I was taking things too seriously and not "playing" if you will; as he first suggested to do. I know that I don't have to have "fun" in everything I do... However, I find that if fun is involved in the process, I can better experiment and learn.
I gave myself an hour and a half to play with images, xerox copy transfers and the such. Will post later. I think I will send this book to Kurt and if he has time we can have a picture dialogue. A book exchange. I derive a tremendous amount of inspiration from such exchanges.
I have a new working bibliography in hand.
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Versions of the tale in sciocultural contex.
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the evolution of the fairy tale.
The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women.
Folklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture industry.
Chinese Folktales
The Truth Never STands in the way of a Good Story.
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I am even allowing my thoughts to entertain future projects... or what I can be "about" as an artist. It seems like a narrow idea to lock myself in a box like this. However, in the beginning, this is how artists get recognition? Well. I obviously have a lot to learn about HOW to be a working artist.
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Here is an e-mail I just sent to Kurt.
So.... with reading about Lil Red and looking at information about Carnivale (an HBO show, only two seasons) .... thinking about "sideshow freaks" and how that relates to my world. I can twist similarties from my own life and project them on to characters that seem like sideshow performers at a circus event. Seems like these paintings of tales, with a distinctive bent... from the view point of the different characters can lead to subject matter I am very interested in painting. The freak/side show, the mystical, the tale, the story.... all of it so anthropological and ripe with story telling potential. This has been done a billion times before by artists much wiser, much more practices than myself... but not by me. Not that I will do anything so special.... but I think I have found an avenue to paint portraits, tell stories, or rather retell stories, and use painting, printmaking and book arts as the vehicle to relate the stories.
I was thinking about the book for little Red. It could be sevearl small books, depicting the one characters point of view, then a compilation of the books in the end. They could fit into one case, housing all five or six books. Just a thought. I can make up a dummy for this one. Especially now that some of the details of the story and how I hope to portray the characters are becoming more clearly defined.
We all have different personality types. Some; if I make the wolf to be a sympathetic yet evil character; may relate to the wolf more than poor innocent Red. I don't know... so many twists and turns with possibilities.
Thanks for reading.
A
I gave myself an hour and a half to play with images, xerox copy transfers and the such. Will post later. I think I will send this book to Kurt and if he has time we can have a picture dialogue. A book exchange. I derive a tremendous amount of inspiration from such exchanges.
I have a new working bibliography in hand.
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Versions of the tale in sciocultural contex.
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the evolution of the fairy tale.
The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women.
Folklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture industry.
Chinese Folktales
The Truth Never STands in the way of a Good Story.
+++
I am even allowing my thoughts to entertain future projects... or what I can be "about" as an artist. It seems like a narrow idea to lock myself in a box like this. However, in the beginning, this is how artists get recognition? Well. I obviously have a lot to learn about HOW to be a working artist.
+++
Here is an e-mail I just sent to Kurt.
So.... with reading about Lil Red and looking at information about Carnivale (an HBO show, only two seasons) .... thinking about "sideshow freaks" and how that relates to my world. I can twist similarties from my own life and project them on to characters that seem like sideshow performers at a circus event. Seems like these paintings of tales, with a distinctive bent... from the view point of the different characters can lead to subject matter I am very interested in painting. The freak/side show, the mystical, the tale, the story.... all of it so anthropological and ripe with story telling potential. This has been done a billion times before by artists much wiser, much more practices than myself... but not by me. Not that I will do anything so special.... but I think I have found an avenue to paint portraits, tell stories, or rather retell stories, and use painting, printmaking and book arts as the vehicle to relate the stories.
I was thinking about the book for little Red. It could be sevearl small books, depicting the one characters point of view, then a compilation of the books in the end. They could fit into one case, housing all five or six books. Just a thought. I can make up a dummy for this one. Especially now that some of the details of the story and how I hope to portray the characters are becoming more clearly defined.
We all have different personality types. Some; if I make the wolf to be a sympathetic yet evil character; may relate to the wolf more than poor innocent Red. I don't know... so many twists and turns with possibilities.
Thanks for reading.
A
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