to my audience:

What is your desired direction with your intended audience; Emotional, Intellectual, Intuitive, Sensual, Neutral or other? Expound.


Emotional. Intellectual. Intuitive. 


Emotional because I believe that's what any form of art is - emotion put into a certain medium or mediums and presented to an audience. That's what makes art so controversial and so sensitive; emotions are being criticized, judged, accepted. 


I've heard various instructors at MIAD speak about how a critique is nothing personal -- "we're just judging your artwork, not you as a person." Well me, as a person, not me as a backpack or as a table, put my own hard work and sadness and joy and anger and expression into this crappy piece of cut out paper and paint because that's what I do. That's what I'm here for. And hopefully the crappy pieces will eventually evolve into masterpieces, since that's also what I'm here for. 


So please, don't sit there and tell me you're not judging me personally. Don't tell me you expect your own audiences to look at your work and not make speculations about you as an artist or as a person or as a person who IS an artist, whether they know you or they don't. No one's buying it, and as instructors of wildly opinionated and angsty individuals this should be common sense. 


Intellectual because to put it bluntly, I don't care for close-minded, easily offended pricks looking at my work. They don't deserve to. 


Pick apart my photography and my writing as much as you'd like. Tear it up, shred it to pieces, by all means! Be aware that I'm going to expect reasons, and valid ones at that. It's the name of the game and those are the rules you have to play by if you want to be a part of it. 


Intuitive because not a whole lot of explaining is typical or expected in the art world. Make up your own stories to fill in my gaps and believe whatever you'd like to believe. If it helps you sleep at night and makes you a happier or sadder person that's on you. I just provide the context. 


Isn't that what art's about anyways? Making people think, raising questions, causing revolutions, making a difference. I want my work to be true and pure -- not clogged up with modern-day cliche. 


I promise, I won't intentionally mislead you.