30/01/2010

Just reading your thoughts has been very constructive to the way that I have been trying to assess our current standing as artists/curators. We are at one of our most busy times at the moment, in an organisational way, balancing numerous curatorial projects at once... but I also feel like I have a river of creative ideas ready to burst its banks. This was bothering me somehow. But. Now I feel like this is how it should be all the time: overflowing and back and forth with curatorial and creative ideas. The more we are working together organisationally, the more creative ideas we will have. This is essentially how we became an artist couple in the first place, so of course it stands that the more intense our organising gets, the more prolific our 'creative minds' will become. I definitely feel this is the case! I feel like a child at the moment; giddy with ideas and bearing an overwhelming energy to make every single one into a reality, without thinking about consequences (for me, this is where the 'child' description came into play). It is this 'giddiness' rather than confidence that informs the playfulness within our work, from my perspective. I am always happy to suggest ideas without thought, like a child, and then analyse them later to find the means of my overall goal, like an artist (an artist, working backwards perhaps). It is this roller-coaster manner of thought that makes me so excited, and which makes each new idea 'sillier' or more sculptural (as this is my 'natural' way of thinking) or more challenging (...to 'the man' or an artistic boundary) than the last, especially when encouraged by a Lois.

You might even say that we are working in a curatorial/artistic 'bubble' created by ourselves where we fuel each other's silly or sculptural or confrontational idea, without thought to its worth. With this in mind, is this 'bubble' dangerous to our practice, making all our work too absurd without an obvious direction (...how many times have I written silly/confrontational/sculptural... all different things?...)? Or is it this 'bubble' that intelligently creates and informs the worthy playfulness and/or sculptural and/or boundary challenging nature of our work (... all important?...), making it integral to our practice (...perhaps by creating such a variety of working themes that just show we are at developing stage of our artistic selves?...)?