Tying Everything Together

At the beginning of the year my statement for this blog said that I was centering my posts around my artwork and the main idea of my artwork, which is using text in my work in a variety of formats. I am still continuing this. Throughout the year, I have worked on several projects, all of which somehow had to do with text. I have explored different ways to form text on each project. I have painted words freehandedly, scratched words into plexiglass with a sharp object, used chalk, pastels, crayons, and graphite to write with, and also have burned words into one of my wood pieces with a wood burner. I have also surprised myself and have ended up working on several different "canvases" this year also. The craziest one was definitely a suitcase. I am currently using an old book as a canvas which has been an adventurous experience, because with that many pages there is so much opportunity! I have loved this project so far because I feel like I never run out of room to add things onto since there are so many pages. I am glad that I have stuck to my original focus point because I just love words and text, and it would be impossible for me to part with it.

All of the artists I have blogged about this year all have one thing in common, and it is that they too all work with text in the artwork. I have enjoyed learning about these artists and their work and seeing how they relate to my work as a whole, too. I have found that some of their ideas were also similar to mine in some of my pieces. My favorite thing about the artists that I have blogged about for inspiration is that a few of them put their inner thoughts into their art. They literally turn the small thoughts in their head into beautiful pieces. I have also done this in a few of my pieces, such as the flower and the two word walls. It is a nice way to free yourself of your jumbled inner thoughts but without having to fully reveal yourself. Although the artists and I have used different media in our pieces, (a lot of them used lights to project their pieces) I thought it was neat how well I could relate to them and to get ideas from them.