Ira Glass: Creative Process

I can relate to what Ira Glass talks about, growing up I’ve constantly have that issue where my creative taste doesn’t match up to what I created. When I was younger I would often get discouraged by it, I once ripped everything from my tiny notebook of drawings because I couldn’t produce what I have in mind the way I wanted it to turn out and I stopped drawing for a really long time, at least in my child’s mind I stopped for a while but it probably was a less than a month. But I picked it back up again and I could now produced what I wanted to  match my taste and beyond my little child mind now.

Robert Lugo

Robert Lugo’s  words were very powerful, but unlike him instead of using his art and creatively to address issues I’ve used it to hide from my feelings and issues and I’ve only just started to use my experiences in my work. Lugo talking about the color of his skin and how he was instantly judge based on how he appears hits home for me. Because I am Chinese I’ve also had to deal with being automatically judged cause of my appearance but not as harshly as he had it. But because of my experiences I have a lot to express in my work about my identity and how my culture plays a huge part in my life.

Krista Tippet: Vulnerability

Listening to her talk about vulnerability I sort of had a resistance towards what she is saying because I realized I never really like to express my vulnerability; I didn’t like to put my thoughts, experiences, and troubles into my art because for the longest time I used my art as an escapism type of thing. Me showing my feelings in my work makes me feel naked; I feel exposed and very vulnerable to show my thoughts. But as I’ve gotten older and seeing other bodies of work that pour themselves into their work and how it has such a huge impact on me. It made me want to do that too.

John Cleese: Creatively

I just like to listening to his voice and maybe it’e because he has an accent and he sounds very posh I am more inclined to listen to him more. But his voice also makes me very sleepy.  One point that I really like was what he point out that ideas and creatively doesn’t come from our laptops and devices, there’s so many times I search for ideas on the internet but all of them very never successful; my most successful pieces were created with no thought and were done unintentionally.

Susan Kae Grant

I absolutely love Grant, her form of story telling is very engaging and whimsical about dreams and the unconscious. I know for certain I want to do some form of story telling for my BFA but don’t know how and Grant gave me some ideas as I was watching her video on how to make my piece more engaging.

David Whyte: The Conversational Nature of Reality

“and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone…”

“none of us really feel we deserve our happiness…”

“we shape ourselves to fit the world…”

“we can refuse to be ourselves…we forget we are pretending…and we eventually become who we become someone we are trying to forget…”

I don’t really have much to say about Whyte but he makes a lot o interesting points and I feel there’s an really interesting story to make.

Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time

Her connection with femininity and female power with the goddess is a really interesting connection. Female power is always present and is will always be present and I like the message she has intends to have in her piece and it’s really cool that she uses the museum as her piece using other works to enhance and to make connection with her themes.

Miwa Matreyek: This World Made Itself

Her work is very beautiful and I love how she used animation and live footage to create her piece; it’s makes a very mesmerizing body of work and the music is very nicely paired with her video.

Maggie Taylor: Process and Inspiration

Watching Taylor and how she goes through her creative process gives me inspiration on what I want to do. I really like how she gave new life to the old found photos of people and really just uses her imagination to fabricate a whole new life and story for them.

William Kentridge:

I’ve seen his work before and saw a few of his animations as well and they are absolutely breath-taking. Her mark making as he animates his work is very beautiful. I also love how personal his piece his between him, the charcoal and his canvas.

Charles Purdy:
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