national arts in education week continues! i give you the amazing Zoe Leonard.
i've been staring at her images a lot lately. A LOT. there is a quality... a roughness, a thoughtfulness, a diaristic sort of awareness taking place in her documents. there is a quality in her work that i want for myself, for my own work.
she makes me want to read more Susan Sontag.
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these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.
4 comments:
ohhhh! i know zoe leonard. we made a major exhibit here in madrid. i had time to study her. she´s so obsessive.... i love her work!!
lots of love and inspiration...
blessings, dear!
yolanda
yolanda! i'm jealous! how wonderful! i've never seen her work in real life before, i would absolutely LOVE to just sit and stare at her work. gorgeous!
i absolutely love that airplane window view.
maggie, that's my favorite one too!!!! :)
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