"Artist Statement"

 This blog is my homework for Media 160, and this 'artist statement' is my first assignment.

 The medium I use often changes. My background has mainly been performance in music and comedy, with a strong dance, writing and sewing practice.  I make videos that often incorporate these interests in some way.  I write comedy sketches that become videos.  An arm movement becomes a dance. I have ideas for plays, but sometimes they become abstract short stories without endings. In this class, my focus will be visual moments.

 I am interested in poetry. I like fragments of ideas, wisps. Glimpses of life. So much can come across in a short segment, in a phrase or image. I tell stories in short visual snippets.

I like the beginning of the idea. I like the sketch. I like to expose the process rather than just show the polished end. The process interests me as it reveals the inner workings, the personality of the creator comes out. I like improv comedy for similar reasons, because you can see a persons brain at work, you can see how their mind and perspective is unique when watching live improvised performance.  I try to emulate that feeling, that exposed thought process in my work.

I use my work as a way to explore my psyche as well as to explore the world and people's thought processes directly around me. To understand the inner workings of the world a little bit. To dig. I want to play with the world and get to know it and the people here, to poke fun in good cheer as well as to bring commonalities to light.