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Published On: Sep 09, 2004 07:50 AM
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Published On: Sep 09, 2004 07:50 AM
I'm extremely sorry, but
I'll be back in a moment. I've got to
take a call from Gary Groth.
Ph:
Gary?
GG: Hi Phoebe!
Ph: Hi!
Ph: Well, I still feel that we (anybody) can only interpret experience, and by that I mean that we invent the meaning of our own experience- and in this way, not being able to escape our own subjectivity, we are incapable of reporting "the facts." Truth to me seems to be an abstract notion, something that we've invented to comfort ourselves. We all imbue our experiences with meaning, we create ourselves in that sense.... blah blah blah...
GG: Yeah, well, so you say, but I'm asking you if these things really happened or not. If, as you say, you were working from the actual diary you kept as a teenager, blah blah blah....
I'd like to interrupt here to directly address anyone who may be reading this blog. I AM NOT MY ART. YOU are not YOUR art. Once it's finished, the viewer or reader must bring meaning to it. The relationship between the "consumer" and the "product" is all that is of significance. Who the creator was has no bearing on this relationship.
And yes, my work is often an interpretation of my life, but through my work I often project my feelings and thoughts about life in general, about all people, not just about myself. I use myself as a character, but it is not me. I use myself. It is simply that, it seems so clear to me... I am a tool, but I'm also the one wielding this tool- I feel no preciousness for the subject-- I am like clay, I can be anyone, I can be Gary Groth and call myself "Minnie."
The picture above left is a picture of me, but it's not me. It's a conscious projection of what I felt that "me" should be for my purposes at the moment I snapped the damn shutter. The picture on the right is me just as well, even though it is also Gary Groth and I didn't take it myself (my apologies to Katherine Keller, to whom I think it can be attributed). However, I did use it in a way that required a assigning a certain meaning to the image. How you now interpret the two images is now a phenomenon that no longer involves me.
As soon as I hit the "publish" button, I'm gone, baby, I don't matter anymore. All that matters is YOU.
GG: Hi Phoebe!
Ph: Hi!
Ph: Well, I still feel that we (anybody) can only interpret experience, and by that I mean that we invent the meaning of our own experience- and in this way, not being able to escape our own subjectivity, we are incapable of reporting "the facts." Truth to me seems to be an abstract notion, something that we've invented to comfort ourselves. We all imbue our experiences with meaning, we create ourselves in that sense.... blah blah blah...
GG: Yeah, well, so you say, but I'm asking you if these things really happened or not. If, as you say, you were working from the actual diary you kept as a teenager, blah blah blah....
I'd like to interrupt here to directly address anyone who may be reading this blog. I AM NOT MY ART. YOU are not YOUR art. Once it's finished, the viewer or reader must bring meaning to it. The relationship between the "consumer" and the "product" is all that is of significance. Who the creator was has no bearing on this relationship.
And yes, my work is often an interpretation of my life, but through my work I often project my feelings and thoughts about life in general, about all people, not just about myself. I use myself as a character, but it is not me. I use myself. It is simply that, it seems so clear to me... I am a tool, but I'm also the one wielding this tool- I feel no preciousness for the subject-- I am like clay, I can be anyone, I can be Gary Groth and call myself "Minnie."
The picture above left is a picture of me, but it's not me. It's a conscious projection of what I felt that "me" should be for my purposes at the moment I snapped the damn shutter. The picture on the right is me just as well, even though it is also Gary Groth and I didn't take it myself (my apologies to Katherine Keller, to whom I think it can be attributed). However, I did use it in a way that required a assigning a certain meaning to the image. How you now interpret the two images is now a phenomenon that no longer involves me.
As soon as I hit the "publish" button, I'm gone, baby, I don't matter anymore. All that matters is YOU.
Posted: Sun - January 25, 2004 at 07:37 PM