Art has been apart of me my entire life and listening to Kentridge I was reminded of the things I've been told throughout my life time. That art isn't a job. How will you support yourself? Get a job. A lot of people don't realize the money and time put in to creating a piece. You put in what you get out, that's with anything even art. Kentridge's speech spoke to me when he stated, "I am an artist." There is no way around it because you always find your back to painting, drawing, whatever it is that you do. It always comes back to you somehow.
Leaf:
Leaf talks about how it takes nerve to destroy an image to create the next. As an artist that is a difficult thing for me to do. Once I have a portion of a piece the way I want it, I try and be careful around it so I don't mess it up. I can't imagine turning one of my works into an animation and having nothing but a film to show it. I would want that physical piece of work along with it. As some artists film overhead to show how they create their work. Leaf expresses that techniques change and I couldn't agree more. Recently I've looked back over my artwork and my family and I have seen how I have grown as an artist. How my knowledge has grown with the variety of materials I can use and how I use them. The more you work on something such as technique, the better you become.
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