| Description |
As an artist, I was also raised to love and revere painting, and I carry a passion for it. However, as I have grown and read, and gained a stronger appreciation for feminist and outsider art, craft has become a second passion that informs my practice. There is a thematic conflict here that reflects on a more ephemeral struggle; an interior life versus an exterior life, one tradition versus another, an old way of thinking versus the new. Like so many others, I am fundamentally torn between my own desires and the desires of my culture and community, oftentimes struggling even to be able to differentiate between the two. In this paper, I will be discussing, theorizing, and providing context around how juxtaposing craft and textiles against traditional painting within the same works functions as a visual metaphor for this conflict; and how it can speak to a larger discussion on the relationship between these seemingly disparate fields. |
