For Bridge 1 for my Integrative Studio 2 class, we were given the task to create 5 visual images based on 5 questions that we each came up with in our own time on our observations in Union Square. I have laid out my artist statement for these visualisations I have created as follows.
My Bridge 1 project saw me go far deeper into conversation with myself than I expected it to. I liked it. I actually loved it. This is my art creation process usually and I love explaining how I got from a thought to an image and why because often I believe my story is more important than my final creation. I don’t hold strength in my final images but more in my journey of getting there. I believe that is how my 5 visual images are connected in a familiar sort of way. I think logically and explain in a way that makes my explanation very inherent. Every image I have created is based on not only the world I have been observing carefully but me myself and I see the link with simultaneous perception here that I didn’t see when I first started working on this project.
I know I wasn’t experimenting with my medium and it gets boring with the same one for all my images. I’m not a hundred percent comfortable with pencil and pastels on paper and I’m not fluent in their use either but after creating my first two images with them I knew this was really helping me say what I wanted to say and made sense, well at least to me it did. These aren’t the only things that tie them all together. I think the most important element is that they are all based truly on original subjects which emerged from a long specific pattern of thinking and conversation in self.
