One pitfall with verbalizing visual art is the risk of hardening the concept while the visuals drift from that concept. I feel some drift from what I have come to think is conceptually important to my work. I am less sure, or perhaps simply less comfortable, about whether my current work really connects to loss and retention of identity through transition and transformation. The elements perhaps don't come close enough to the edge of losing themselves. As I work to push the elements to the edge, I'm pushed back by an affinity for the material qualities of the elements.
So I am spending more time simply drawing on paper ... the solution perhaps is in the distraction.
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