"Artist" Statement
Calling all fellow thesis-ers,
Now that I am putting the finishing touches on my thesis, I am faced with the next hurdle: the Artist Statement.
What in God's green earth did you write about for that many pages? I cannot possibly fill 8-30 pages with "I have been writing ever since I can remember..."
When oh when will this ever end?
posted by Alex @ 9:09 AM
6 Comments:
At 11:27 AM,
Rand said…
Oooh, make shit up!
Like, "After a homeless childhood living in cardboard boxes in New York City I was lucky enough to win a full scholarship to the Piddlington School in Wyoming where I learned to weave hemp rugs and to speak Mandarin Chinese. My senior year was only briefly interrupted by brain surgery and I regained the feeling in my hands just in time to write my final exams before joining a traveling klezmer band that toured the Pacific Northwest. Long haul trucking was my next endeavor (a good career for a convicted felon) and all those days on the highways and byways gave me lots of great raw material for my first book, "Truckers and Hookers," which led me to writing as a possible third career. Starting on gum wrappers and other "found" items I wrote tiny haiku and then medium-sized sonnets until I finally found an 80 page tablet and wrote my novella "If you close your eyes, anything tastes like chicken."
See, I wrote that in 2 minutes! Surely you can write something better than that. You could write 30 pages in a day if you wanted to.
Go Alex!!! Get it done!!!
At 7:03 PM,
Voix said…
Or you could just steal what Rand wrote and wing it from there. . . I want more details on that "tastes like chicken" part, for example. What's my motivation for eating chicken?
At 8:21 PM,
Alex said…
Since I just got back from three days of doing little more than staring at the waves of Lake Superior, it may take a day or two before I am up to writing anything even remotely as enlightened, and enlightening, as Rand's suggestion. And please don't even mention chicken.
The brain surgery part was especially apropos. Will share more on that over beers some day.
Alex
At 2:24 PM,
David Oppegaard said…
Hi Alex. I actually used some edited blogagaard snippets about writing mixed with other stuff.
At 9:01 PM,
Rand said…
tastes like chicken
At 6:46 PM,
M said…
What? We have to write an artist's statement? CRAP!
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