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After Everything Else

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Rebecca recommended a series of short videos on YouTube about elderly artists living in New York made by Joshua Charow.

In one of them, the artist, John Willenbecker, comments that he thinks that he could be a really great artist if he didn’t care about anything else except his work. He quotes Ad Reinhardt as saying that ‘one paints when there is nothing else to do. After everything is done, has been taken care of, one can take up the brush. After all the human social needs, pressures are accounted for. Only then can we be free to work.’

Try being a female artist with a family, I thought to myself.

Mapped

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As part of my research I read ‘The Map As Art’ by Katharine Harmon.

Whilst my research ultimately went off in a different direction, below are some of the images which stood out to me and which might influence some of my work going forward, but maybe not the tattoo.

Joyce Kozloff – Targets, 2000
Joyce Campbell – Images from the series ‘LA Bloom’ 2002
Theodore Lamb – Rock Maps 28 & 54
Ingrid Calame – No. 231 Drawing
Katie Holland Lewis – Tangled Pathways, 2006
Sandra Smirle – no place like it 1,2 &3
Jeannie Thib – Geographia, 1995
Monica de Miranda – ‘In the back of our hands, 2006
Janice Caswell – Alternate Realities, 2006
Qin Ga – The Miniature Long March, 2005
Yumi Janairo Roth – Meta Mapa, 2007
Heidi Whitman – Night Flight/ Brain Terrain (158), 2006
Adriana Varejāo – Contingent 1998-2000
Georgia Russell – Britain: March 2003 (Britain on Iraq) 2003
Emma Johnson – Matrix, 2007
Jeff Woodbury – Atlas, 2008
Maya Lin – Water Line, 20026

But even as I’ve been flicking through the book to get the artists’ details there are others which catch my eye. I think this is a book that I will keep coming back to.