I do not consider myself a master of composite work. To do so is a craft of learning how to blend and mix things together. It is an artform of finding harmony in completely unrelated images/sounds/words and combining them to tell a story. Sometimes the meaning is fluid in meaning while other times transformed over time. We become defined by those stories and how they are translated by others. I do not consider myself on the level to see this particular project to completion in any manner to do it justice alone. I work on a concept as a branching out point as I have done before. Ideas birthed from everywhere.
We are afforded many things in life. Granted this keyboard as much as I am granted many things. Granted and taken for granted are two completely different things. Focus was set to go in the direction of food for the time being as portraiture has become a complicated issue to me. Portraiture gives an opportunity to live vicariously through the subject matter chosen as much as a partnership is built that goes both ways in what is given and shared. My life, a complicated issue of moving forward while held back in thought and experience.
I think about what is on my plate. A sense of place figuring out a sense of self. Protective this quarter to include mostly myself as I figure out how to proceed forward. Started previous quarters with the idea of Starving Artist. The idea grew and has grown since then. It can grow exponentially under the right circumstances and the right conditions. Those come from what we are afforded and with the knowledge that things could always be refined and defined later. The idea of a starving artist is that you have to work with what you have available to you at the time. 10 year old equipment, 16 dollars an hour, and lighting equipment that may not be the most industry standard, but creates effects that are still worthy of note. You have to do what you can to survive and sometimes/most times you have to do what you can to put food on the table.
Food is scarce. Food is important. That is true of people under-employed. That is true of people on unemployment. That is true of people in other countries around the world that work with less to make ends meet. Zero conflict there on what is relative to the rest of the world. Always room for expansion of what artists have to do to make a living and then there is also the notion to protect and cherish what your have. Even the most innocuous items are a fundamental ingredient to something greater. Collaboration abound. Recipes held back.
The ingredients to things is to understand that it is not going to be perfect at first pass. There is no just flip the switch and boom you are done. There is always refinement to occur. Am I rough around the edges or am I just picking up the pace of new directions of what can and cannot be done with help?
Offered up on a silver platter; a concept is continued.