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When I saw this image by today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Monica Loya, I thought that is exactly how I feel right now. Trying to remain stoic while slowly shaking my head in disbelief.
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Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day asks the universal question, and better yet, is brave enough to admit that he isn’t always happy with the outcome. Thank you. The unrelenting pressure to make creativity look easy and always perfect, not only leads to the demise of artist confidence, but renders experimentation and growth high risk.
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It has been a tempestuous year. It isn’t because I didn’t get achieve a goal or make it to some proverbial guidepost along my chosen path. It is because this year I lost site of the journey TO the guidepost, I think. You never know which moment you will remember, so it is best to make them all count. The collage work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Robert Curtner, reminded to take a moment to take a breath.
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Each day on my way to work, I fall into a rabbit hole. Some days the rabbit hole leads me down a productive path, but the odds are pretty even. The method of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, painter Karen Jacobs, seems to replicate my rabbit-hole wayfinding with gorgeous resolve. Enjoy.
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The work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Satsuki Shibuya offers a respite for each of us to find our own journey. I need the quiet, the time, the perspective.
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Years of being allowed to handle artwork as a juror, curator and/or gallerist has made me the patron that museums loathe. I want to feel the texture, smell the oils, see the support structure. Art should always be personal. Intimate. But, I refrain. I still long to touch, but I don’t.
Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Christian Hetzel chooses texture and palette to convey a complexity of message. There is a reason all signs flash and a commercials scream. Competing for our attention is complicated. But does it have to be?
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My time as an illustrator has made me such a fan of iconography –from typography to sacred icons. I appreciate the the subtleties of unspoken language. I ask all new design clients a handful of questions that help me get to know them & their design style. In answer to the “serif vs. sans serif” question, one of my recent artist-clients responded, “Sans serif. What am I, a lawyer?” Perfect.
Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Sarah Stone employs icons, both common & obscure, to open a dialogue. Does the need to ask & discover open up the possibility for understanding? Isn’t understanding the foundation for everything we want? What do you see in this work?
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I want to believe the best of people, but the current political climate has challenged that ability. It as though the majority of people I already knew to have political leanings in one direction or the other have suddenly become extremists who are not only willing, but happy, to spout hate or accept the complete destruction of those that differ from them. It scares me. Then I ran across this quote… [These images] “are a way of seeing commonplace architecture with fresh eyes and discovering both the charm and the dark side of easily-ignored structures.”
I went in search of the images referenced by the quote. That’s how I happened across this work from today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Ed Freeman. While that is completely backward of my normal process, it seems that his images quietly, innocently & unintentionally mimic their louder human counterparts. Intriguing.
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At least once per day, my husband and I have an interaction that results in my saying, “Never die. I can’t date again.” It is usually some bizarre, embarrassing action or phrase or conversation that reveals a level of intimacy that feels abnormal. We are a metaphorical three-legged monster –connected at the hip. And while I am grateful, I can also recognize it for the freakish co-dependence that it is.
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Today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Emilyann Gachko has taken on a sort of documentary process of the personalities of internet dating. She puts a human, humane face on the people who find themselves looking for a life partner. The project is just beginning, but I was intrigued enough to read every entry so far. I still have no interest in dating again, but “Love, Me” has made me realize that people looking for love are just like me. Shared experience and needs and desires build tolerance. Tolerance is good.
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We grow up hearing “anything’s possible”. But is it really? Possibilities vary from person to person. Privilege aside, doesn’t the individual’s talents and tendencies shape what is truly possible? I believe we find our possibilities where we look for them. I struggle with faith but find the need for absolutes stifles creativity. The work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Tracie Cheng suggests possibility in the intangible which requires faith in some form. Maybe it is dichotomy, not contradiction.
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