This quarter during seminar my intentions are to explore my own authority in my art. What does my art look like when I am in charge and not another outside force/figure? This piece reflects my desire to claim my own authority and use art as a way to make it visual.
I loved working with these images, words and materials during class last week. The phrases I found in an old "Look" magazine from 1959. The phrases at first startled me, but then I felt an excitement to change them. As if by ripping them out of their pages and altering the words to reflect myself, I was immediately saying no to the way of thinking for women in 1959. It was liberating and still excites me to think that I have the power to change that way of thinking. I have the authority.
Tonight's sharing of my works in progress left me leaving energized. The beautiful words and thoughts shared within our safe and intimate group was juicy this evening. I love sitting with a group of fellow artists and responding to each others works in a deep and honest way. There is something about stripping yourself naked to be vulnerable in front of others and then owning all that comes out. Beautiful. There is a synergy that is forming with us in the group of women that I am so proud to be a part of. I look forward to all of our discoveries this summer and how each one of them feed and grow from the other.
