Hi, it’s T
“all the art i see is descriptive of the action rather than being it or going against it it limits itself with fancy words and processes while being inaccessible but more so boring the exciting part is merely the visual tricks but nothing else is entertaining or thought provoking and questions can simply be answered with words”
from my notes on a saturday evening of art gallery attendance
people will see that the echo chamber does not allow the outsider in. i do not wish to lay on your bed, i can lay on my own.
i feel artists think the sharing of their lives and interactions is profound, when i find myself more and more bored and un-phased at the art shows i attend. everyone has something to share, but ive definitely heard it before. i think artists dont realize that we are all moving at the same pace, we are all processing the world around us very similarly (in the context of america).
these sought after artists cannot be making art on their very very specific humble lives and expect me to be engaged, its just laughable. its inaccessible and messy, i go to therapy too i dont need it plastered on a wall. the things artists are creating are not drawing harsh conclusions or critique the collective trauma we are all processing, they are simply displaying. with nothing but a process to back it up. maybe if you were breaking the well understood rules like Lenore Tawney I would consider looking deeper, but she broke the rules in a sense to create disruption in the medium itself rather than her relationship to it. you just have a couple of extra hours in the darkroom, or maybe using an ancient technique in a modern context, or or oro rorororooro. like i do not care! i could think of a million combinations but i just sick of the combinations. juxtaposition and context, IM SICK OF NEEDING CONTEXT. i like to read the press release i do, i think titles are important in a poetry sense and can deeply connect with the viewer, which is another topic. but every show ive been to recently has relied heavily on the press release, expecting me to draw my own conclusions when it’s literally laid out in front of me. leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination, and any question i might have can simply be answered. is art really supposed to be a q&a? are we just in this white walled cube to play a guessing game? i fucking hope not, ya’ll need to read bell hooks now and make a bad collaboration with your studio mate because im sick of all these photos of your parents.