Select three quotes from the excerpt that you can relate to and type them into a post on your blog. Maybe they remind you of something that's happened to you in an art class or something you've seen someone else experience. Write about how you relate to the quote and include as many specific stories as you can.
1: "Art is human; error is human; ergo art is error." I feel that this is soooo true to my artistic process. Sometimes inspiration comes from a mess-up I made in a sketch, or when I grab a material or color I wasn't planning on using, or when a piece comes out looking totally different from how I envisioned it.
2: "Asking your awork to prove anything only invites doom." I struggle with this all the time because of the influence of artists around me. I feel a constant push that my art has to mean something. I create my art to be viewed, not studied and scrutinized for social value. There may be small meanings in some of it, such as "I think graffiti is art" or "portraiture can be fun" but generally there won't be meaning in my work, and I feel pressured to put something in it.
3: "When your work is counted, will it be counted as art?" This is a big question for me, especially because I do some art that is influenced by art forms that some people do not like very much (graffiti, toy design, graphic design). Many of the design forms were looked down on as being "sell outs" in the art community for a while, so I feel like there may still be some sort of animosity there. Some of my work looks sort of childish in nature, or under-produced, and I feel like that could lead to some "is it art?" questioning. I think it is though.
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