Who do I talk to about art?

First off, I must say that talking about my art has ALWAYS been an extremely trying thing for me. Because of my ever-looming lack in self-confidence and nervous demeanor, I often find it hard to talk to people about my art. I find it especially hard to talk about these things to people who I'm not familiar with or who don't understand who I am. Especially lately, my art is such a personal thing that explaining it troubles me constantly.

As I totally contradict my previous statement, I have to admit, I feel like I'm figuring things out and talking about my art in class this semester is becoming an easier task. I think I'm starting to find myself understanding more and more about my brains as I make more art and try to explain why I am justified in making it.

Herein, Talking to a certain art professor is what I do daily. This is my rant on how thankful I am to have someone who puts up with me coming to him for any little problem/idea/tangent I have to blab about. It has helped me so much to be in conversations about art and hearing ideas and throwing out ideas. It's definitely what I need right now. Someone to get me thinking more about it and encouraging my artmaking is getting me to understand how much i NEED to make art. Thanks, Tinder.

I also talk to people in my classes about art. It's interesting to get so many different backgrounds and opinions on it. I like to hear them because it helps me solidify my stance on art. While sometimes stressful, I find interest in the conversations in all my art classes.

I also talk to my friends who graduated last year about art. I like to talk to them because they have been out of the college setting for a while now. They know what it's like to have no one constantly inquiring and encouraging. Some of them are still extremely involved in art-making while others have vowed retirement. I want to be one who pursues. I truly don't think I can be content without creating. What that means I don't fully know. I just know that I need to be able to inspire my own creation when the time comes that I am not in the GVC Art Dept anymore.

I guess that's a few of the people I talk to art about.

take photos....explain.

The first image is a view from my bed. I often lie and think in this exact position, these things in my view all the while. It's a mixture of objects from my past as well as things from the present. I cherish these moments lying in bed scrutinizing my walls and the things that hang on them. I yearn to catalog a memory of my life at this point in 2008 by doing so. I want nothing more than to look back with vivid memory of the things happening around me in 2008. I want to remember feelings and events and my ideas on life at this certain point. I also find interest in the patterns made by the objects in the background and they seem reminiscent of those in Zak Smith's work as well as those in Hope Gangloff's. I am working to achieve that sort of interest in my own work, and I often am reminded of those artists and their works as I lay in bed pondering. So I've decided it fitting to add this photo to my blog. Just a reminder of the fact that even the smallest trinkets in my room are important in what makes me, Heather Haukoos.

The second photo is one I've been meaning to take for a long time now and hadn't until just the other day. This is a photo of the shower curtain in a restroom on my floor. Bathrooms are rooms that fascinate me and it seems Jensen Hall has an overabundance of them. Not only an overabundance of bathrooms, but really interesting ones. The objects and shapes often contrast so well with the lighting and herein I'm sold that bathrooms are some of my favorite rooms. Perhaps it's because the bathroom in my house growing up was often the warmest room in the winter or maybe it's because I have fond memories of bath-time as a child. Perhaps I over analyze and there's not much rhyme or reason other than the fact that I really like captivating shapes contrasted with light. All I know is I am glad I finally took this photo.

Past Work

I hadn't posted work from last spring. Well, here it is. This link should take you to it

http://s298.photobucket.com/albums/mm243/heatherhaukoos/