Artist Statement:
As long
as I can remember my bed has always been my creative retreat. A place where
brainstorming and dreaming becomes a very personal and flourishing act. From a
young age I always kept a notepad on my bedside table because it always
happened that my most expressive ideas occurred in a dreamlike sequence—or
waking up from one. I would wake up in the morning and reread the ideas and it
always amazed me because my thoughts were never completely linear—in bed they
were fluid, but always shooting from every which direction and I have never
been able recall how I would begin to come up with such ideas or come to my ending
result of notes. All I know is that for me, my bed has always been that place
of complete creative freedom, awareness and self-love.
For this
interpretation I will represent my happening as the stark contrast between the
public and the private on my creative aura. I will begin lying down in my room,
wearing all white as a blank canvas—not exposing my creative being just yet. This
is the realm in which I advance as a clean slate, covering up my most
vulnerable personal self and this—is the realm that I wear in public.
I
will then be alone, the blank canvas acting as my second skin will now become a
creative outlet for me, where I can work out all of my creative ideas. I will
be in the comfort of my own embodiment of self and safety, my bed. The idea of
letting myself let go is uncomfortable at first, but despite that there is an
even stronger urge to just create and allow. This transition between the public
and the private very much emphasizes the idea of dreaming the outside world
away, baring all by letting creativity flood through me—onto me. This me, is my
final composition. The most beloved and self-healing me, the most unaffected by
the world around me and the me that is willing to allow the flow of my creative
self happen with passion instead of reason. With this me being present, the
final scene of this piece shows me finally able to sleep, at absolute creative
peace. A blank canvas come alive.
In Process Pictures:
Video of Happening:
Final Compositions:
Dress Front
Dress Detail
Bed Sheet Canvas
