Artist Statement (Blog #1) | Finding the "Real"
My Artist Statement? Get ready for grittiness. Get ready for truthfulness. Get ready for "real". Born in NYC, my biggest source of Art inspiration throughout my entire life has been riding the NYC Subway. You can't get more profound than observing the people around you in a subway car, while riding home to Queens on the E train one Sunday evening. To your right, you have a little Chinese woman teaching herself how to read in english by referencing the book “Heidi” and typing the english words into her little electronic translator, and having the Chinese equivalent of every sentence pop up at her when she presses “enter”. To your left, you have an adorable little middle-aged woman who is peeling a fresh orange, making the entire Subway car smell amazing, and looking like there’s no happier person on the planet than herself. When you comment on the delicious smell of the orange, she responds that she just recently, at 47, discovered fruit for the first time in her life, ...