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Day II Day: When Art becomes Clarity...

February 02, 2017

Took a very long overdue trip to the Chazen museum located here in Madison. Accompanying me was the talented painter Ashley Roberston of West Label Art, we used the variety of the space offered to get some practice shots in. While generally scanning the galleries for good things to shoot, this particular sculpture caught my eye. The emotions or lack there of on the faces of the womyn in the piece really struck a large question mark in my noggin, I couldn't help but place my own feelings & thoughts in places I had unanswered questions. My fear was and has been a consistent theme in my mind. My fear of never being able to beat my best self, or never being able to sustain a living doing what I love. Over the next few day I was unable to get these womyn's faces out of my head, wondering where their fear lied. I did some research on the piece while editing and the title was all the answer I needed... 

"Are One Hundred Playing You? Or Only One?"

 

Big thanks to Contemporary Chinese Artist Xiang Jing, for giving me a permanent answer to that little fvcker in my head called doubt.

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