The Long Face of Society

Indian ink and paint brush. This is my favourite so far, I could almost see it as a wrapping paper or wall paper, definitely going to try and screen print when I have time!

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Derek Weisberg

Derek Weisberg is one of my favourite sculptors. Not only do I enjoy looking at the characters he makes I love the thought behind it, I don’t think art always needs a reasoning behind it but Weisberg has quite similar beliefs and thoughts as myself. However, it was only until I began to research him that I found out that we shared beliefs. Here are some quotes from his website:

I create works of art that are emotional and psychological self-portraits. Through my work I aim to make sense of my life, my experiences, and the times I live. I do not wish to represent like a photo, instead to achieve an innerness.

 

To experience death is to experience the most unique situation in life; it is simultaneously completely familiar and alien, definitive and confusing, guaranteed and mysterious. This work is a combination of all those things and has been a way to help me navigate through and reconcile with the loss of my mother.

Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader is a performance artist, he creates videos mostly with very little or no sound. During college I discovered his videos and instantly fell in-love. The first video I remember watching is “I’m too sad to tell you…” from 1971. At the time of discovering his videos, minimal photography and typography was one of my interests and seeing it in video form was really interesting.

…lost at sea in 1975 between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Ireland