Thursday, March 15, 2012

Alan's statement

Art to me at this moment means creation. Anything that is brought to existence through thought and action is art.  From music, to video, to paintings, to computer programs, to food.  It's all a process of re-working and re-working an idea into the best possible version of a concrete form that can be gotten. A concept in art I'm trying to focus more on as I go is subtlety, and it is best conveyed in a quote from Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' series: "He had long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise." I keep this in mind as I go and try to work on crafting art; consciously having everything present for a reason and in balance.