Recently, I was reading an article in the New York Times about photographer Zoe Strauss, who is having an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There are all sorts of things one could say about her work, which I think is provocative in a good way and pushing some boundaries that I, personally, enjoy seeing pushed. But one thing in the the Times article really stopped me in my tracks. The author made mention of the fact that she keeps a blog about her working process and labelled that activity as "an amateur tic". To give some context, the author was noting that Strauss herself does not avoid the label "amateur", indeed sometimes embraces it.
I know other artists - famous and not-so famous - who keep blogs but I have to say that they mostly all keep strictly to posting about their work and/or ideas that relate directly to their work. It isn't so hard to then make a leap and ask myself what, exactly, I am doing with this space.
This isn't a knitting blog. It isn't a spinning blog. It isn't a yoga blog (although that has been hard to tell lately). It isn't a Buddhist blog. It isn't a homeschooling blog.
It is my art blog. Welcome to it.
well yes.
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