random art thoughts. reminders to self.

things always end up cycling back. is it like that for everyone or do i just cause it to happen? is it because i like thinking about the threads, the patterns of thought that occur over time? perhaps.

over a year and a half ago i tried to make this video (that i ended up scrapping) thinking about what was the idea of nature versus what is natural. now in thinking about my thesis, i find its back. but its only now, that i feel like i can think about it in a way and use it more appropriately or at least in a better way in my artwork. back then i could only think of the idea, and make bad things to go with it. but i know i've done the same thing with other themes before too. everything comes back again, but with new things added of course.

what about using toys as sound. getting back to that too, maybe. . .

as stupid as it seems, its so easy to forget about the most obvious aspects of your own artwork and forget why they are they way they are. i have to remember them again. there's the body. and then there's landscape. environment.

also back, is a phrase, a question i used to write all the time in my sketchbook, think about all the time, and was the main part of the first video i ever made, back in undergrad for a video art history and theory class, edited on the vcr- then later, when reading julia kristeva was shocked when she discussed the type of person who asks that question of him/herself. oh yes, and that's a reminder to myself to go back to that reading.

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