BLOG 2 SCOTT WARE

During this next lecture we attended, i was able to hear from a female artist primarily concentrating on feminist subjects. She told us that one of her main goals was to make "meaning" to something (perhaps to the world) through the use of everyday, often found materials. Coming from a harsh background and fitting into the starving artist crowd very well, she would find much of her mediums in the trash or things that people just weren't using, anything such as scrap fabrics from clothing boutiques. Her later works were woven rubs with an emphasis of circular motion, her thoughts on this circular pattern was that there was no edges, no broken seems to end the cycle. This representation of circular motion referenced life in many ways and helped aid her in meditation and her martial arts studies. It was interesting to see how personable and how much meaning goes into each of her artworks. Also to see the evolution of her work...going to traditional oil on sketched canvas's hung on the wall to be displayed to her more recent layered flattened sculptures as she called it or simply rugs, displayed on the floor to be looked at, and not necessarily stepped on. The evolution of ones owe personal style is perhaps one of the greatest achievement's an artist can get, this notion is perhaps the one thing i left the lecture thinking about. ----Scott Ware