I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the active practice of art making. Yes, i make objects, but the objects are the verb made tangible. The documentation of the messy, interconnected, observable and unobservable stuff that is forever imperfectly captured when i put brush to canvas.
“I've started to think of painting as a way to build new cellular memory...or at least the space for new cellular memory to be able to grow” - A’Driane Nieves
“The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.” - Kara Walker
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