[doug]

Ok here goes:

I just re-wrote my artists statement not as a poem but using that form to break it up and emphasize certain words. It is an experiment.

This is an artist statement that would be sent to a public art competition.

Can anybody understand this?

Thanks,

Doug

Artist’s Statement
Douglas Olmsted Freeman

Public Art lives at the intersection of art and community.

I begin with listening
To understand what the community is asking for.
What are your goals?
This provides a framework for ideas.

Next I take a comprehensive look at the site.
Observation
listening to stories, drawing, photographs
study of the environment
If there is a snail, a trilobite, a crocodile
or a mean guitar player
that lives here
I want to know about it

I call this feeding the muse.

I bring these voices and found objects back to the studio
for cooking and deciphering
through sketches and sculptural studies
seeking to give form to that spirit of place

Genius Loci
a symbol, a friend, a muse
a confidant
you decide
your interaction
completes the work

Public Art
finds a home
because it is drawn
from your home place.

[doug]

Drew,

Thanks for your comments. Do you think the poetic form is going to help or hurt the message?

Doug