Tuesday, May 24, 2011

WAKE UP

this is less then 2 blocks from the place i have been living for the last 7 months:


i just discovered it yesterday...

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dear paris,

WAKE UP.
BE PRESENT.
STOP FOCUSING ALL OF YOUR EVERYTHING ON THE FUTURE, WHERE YOU'RE GOING, WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE....
YOU'RE MISSING EVERYTHING (AMAZING THINGS!) ABOUT/AROUND/WITHIN WHERE YOU ARE NOW. (and now. and now. and now. and now...)

Monday, May 23, 2011

emerging artist statment - draft: 1

I am an experimental performance artist with an extensive background in classical violin and ballet training. I am interested in externalizing the internal through sound, movement, and the transformation of spaces, creating immersive multi-sensory experiences for audiences. I make work to dismantle boxes – my own and those that are culturally / socially accepted - by questioning pre-conceived definitions and assumed aspects of humanity.

What does it really mean to be a woman? What does it really mean to be a man? What does it really mean to be strong? What does it really mean to work?

My artistic process is centered around self-study and a general questioning of what it means to be human. Taking an anthropological approach, I work to amplify the collective/shared human experience through examining, exploring, and sharing my individual experience.

I am interested in the occurrence of different versions of the same thing - 50 light bulbs of different shapes and sizes hanging from white string, a wall covered in index cards each filled with unique content, a phrase of movement repeated with slight variation – using objects, sound, and movement to illustrate how as humans, we are all different versions of the same thing.

I want to explore dance as a visual expression of sound, using lines, shapes, and angles of the body (in an environment) to externalize internal processing, emotions, and sentiments. I want to break down my former relationship to music and the violin. I want to dismantle out-moded, limiting systems. I want to highlight the connectivity of all things.

I’m human. You’re human. We’re all human. It is a shared experience.

perfection is an illusion - let it go.


a page from jeff huston's book.
an intimate moment.
a shared experience.
a lesson in giving myself permission to be free and let things out that are based purely on impulse - that are silly or anything but skillfully executed...

beware the illusion of perfection.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

the refusal to be creative is self-will and counter to our true nature.
the refusal to be creative is self-will and counter to our true nature.
the REFUSAL to be creative is SELF-WILL and COUNTER to our TRUE NATURE.

we are refusing to be creative.
the big we.
the universal we.
we are in pain because we are acting against our true nature.
we are acting out because we are in pain.

Friday, May 6, 2011

dismantle boxes

yesterday, i bought my first colored pencils - pastel pencils, to be exact - and my first notebook intended for free-writing/drawing, where order is not the objective and not knowing what i'm going to write or how i'm going to format/organize it before even making a mark is actually encouraged.





no judgement.
freedom.
clarification emerging...