This show took two years to implement. It is exactly a year since the doors closed on the last (1080th?) person who visited it.
I can’t know what remains in the people who came to experience it, but I do know that it ‘moved me on’. Looking back this is what I think.
- It was complex. (too complex or accurately complex?)
- Sifting the particular towards the general took enormous thought.
- It was personal, particular and yet absolutely intentionally political
- It was about this woman’s perception of ‘many things together’.
- Being a woman mother artist is a particular thing.
- Being an artist in my opinion is integral to being right inside life
- ‘Own life’ is the only one we have. That is valid enough.
- Focusing on the everyday is how seeing is amplified
- Following that, the something in the seeing has to be worth sharing
- As artists, we need our ‘windows to the soul’ cleaned all the time
- We should never have to market or sell our own work. We are the wrong sort of person for this job.
- What happens when the public showing and selling structures don’t fit us. Who shrinks?
- I try not to.
- Being an artist, makes one make a plan. ‘Yes I can’ brings endless options.
- ‘More than a thousand people’ walked through my personal home. When it was done, it was done. New things followed.
- Who we are is the only thing we have to share from.
- I made most people pay to see the show – a very small sum, but it was just to make a point about that. (it made a few people cross) – but I get very cross when artist’s work is swallowed unconsciously. It is not always about sales.
- Only some visitors understood the nature of this ‘fiddling’ with construct.
- Life is an investment.
- Art brings life.
- Life causes art.
- Detail is just detail. Its fun but not the point.
- Synthesis and thought offers clarity. This is born through the process.
- Clarity offers a new path.
- Simplicity as clarity comes via the ‘everything’ – not aside from it.
- Generalities are intensely inaccurate – intense individuality has more to offer.
- Hello to mystery.
- Welcome stillness.
