Psyral Infection said
I flat out don't get art but I see nothing wrong with your original statement.

Not sure how artist statements are presented. I think if you wish to edit it and the statement is presented in multi-media format then you should have your original statement with the edits animate in and alter the statement. That way people see the evolution of the statement. Not sure if that made any sense or is even possible. Just an idea.  

I think you "get art" more than you realize. A lot of people are off put by modernist and post modernist work because they expect it to have some super deep meaning but it's all about context and relation. Like, without reading my statement if you answered the questions I posted you'd probably get really, really close to my intent. I'm hoping to help people get even closer.

scruffy said
i could spend years breakin this down witcha. 

short version:  dont think i can give you what youre lookin for without knowin some fundamentals.   

Basically, I just don't think I communicate enough about what my art "is". I wrote the statement during my second art class, and now I've had a lot more and I think I've grown a lot as an artist and I wonder what people read in my work as opposed to what my original intent is. And I'm curious if my statement is too cluttered with experiential info and not enough descriptive info (which is hard with how varied my work is).

krunkazphuk said
Besides maybe changing "quite somberness" to "quiet somberness", for a professional leap you could describe yourself and your escapist technique less, and your artistic mediums/processes more. That way your artist statement would read less like a dating profile and more like a description of the product itself. Gaiman's non-literal advice to one of his graphic artists about considering their audience might apply to you as well, Rob: RIP THEIR HEARTS OUT.  

oh good catch, thanks. 

I'll give a run at being clearer about my practices.

JC said
I think your statement is really good! What about it do you want to change?  

I was talking with my friend about their artist statement and how they present their work. Theirs has brevity and wit and charm. Like you get a real sense of who they are as a person but also a clear understanding of their work. I think I'm just jealous of that. Like, you could take their artist statement and draw their paintings, but they also have a much more consistent style and subject. I dunno. I think I just want to see if I'm still saying what I think I'm saying and see how I can fix it up.

scruffy said

more or less, this is what id go with. 

cuz, i mean, youre the artist, rob, so you would know bestest, yeah? 

 

actually, i got time on my hands...  i could get reeeal detailed with dis ting. 

ifn ya wanted me to.   

Please, do. If you still have the time.

Nyro said
Not here to critique your statement because it looked fine to me but I would like to state I really like how flexible you are as an artist.  

I collect local art and I am absolutely floored by the fact you use so many different mediums and have so many different styles at your disposal.  All the while remaining genuine to yourself and conveying a message.  Hats off to you for that.   

Thank you. 

The original one was for class. I find it's just a good practice to have one so that people can understand your work clearer. Like, it's the cheat sheet for people who throw up their hands and say, "but how is this art". I'd like people to look at my work, make their own assumptions and guesses, read my statement and then be like "oh that's really interesting and I hadn't thought of it that way but like here this part is so true like that's exactly what I saw blah blah blah.

I love scott mcclouds work with comics. I don't really draw, but they were very informative for when I was trying to get into comics.

I'm not really sure I understand the beatles v elvis thing. I get distracted by the names, and would say neither. I'm less interested in pop culture work and more interested in the practice of being.

I'm really on this kick right now of thinking of art as a religious practice. I was thinking about this a lot with the Marvelous Missing Link, especially found. The word link, to me, reminds me of something that connects people to each other. I know they were going for the play on the evolutionary missing link and the sorta strong man type side show freak that often takes that name, but to me, I think of the link that connects me to other people.

Which is and has always been art, even long before I made art. So in the elvis or beatles discussion I'd say, I guess, Elvis, who took songs that everybody knew and reworked them for a new audience, helping bridge the gap for white kids into the lives of the black artists he copied from, though he did it in an exploitative way. He had a round about way of bringing people together, I suppose. 

King Lucem Ferre said
He's a Beatles we all know it.  

Fuck you too lol.

scruffy said  

far as the rest... 

mostly, looks to me like you need a

or at least, you just need to write what a pr rep woulda wrote, if you had one. 

that gettin close?   

More or less, but also something that is kinda like a personal statement of intent. A lot of the ones that I have been reading  this week are in third person. I don't recall why I chose first person. I do recall telling my teacher it had to be first person.