I am really interested in creating an open artwork on the web in conversation with my collage.
I feel torn about it, because I would still like to curate the added images so it still would be my piece and not become junky.
I guess I would mediate it?
I think I'll ask my peers to submit photos to it and maybe have it routed to a separate page of submitted images and then I could edit and add them myself
My art history class inspired this
Our lecture was one a reliquary statue for St. Foy in Conque, France
in the 1st-3rd century people would leave offerings like rings and gemstones to the statue
The church would sell- for fund- or add them to the statue
It created this composite work that is very strange and unique but so beautiful in the way that it was culminated by the care and worship of others.
Now I dont want my website to become an Idol.
But wouldn't that be nice?
I feel like the swarms of people infront of the mona lisa and starry night nearly idolize it.
Poplar works are so blindly praised by the masses that they don't even question why they must take a photo or travel to see it, only that its this "famous" work.
Swarms of people on a certain site can make it crash.
This translates to me how my fascination with the celebrated artist has crashed.
I no longer want to spend time with picasso and claude monet.
They're so superficially absorbed by people, that the recognitio almost ruins their facination with me.
Perhaps even my cuerration style or collaging is too recognizable to me and I need to become more subjective again in order to discover newer techniques.
Mastery seems to inhibit development.
My boyfriend's mother, is a great painter
She never went to school or anything for art, but has developed her own techniques for painting with oil's that she basically glaze's the canvas so she maintains a light airness to her paintings of the white canvas space beneath
This is problematic, as she comfortable in this style she has mastered it limits her from exploring other techniques
We develope comfort zone's with out even consciously realizing it.
Perhaps it's a habit of drinking a glass of wine every night to "unwind"
maybe it a haphazard style of driving