Acceptance (from a-n)

 I can sense my art is going to splinter into the work I make as a professional artist from the work I make in my own time as a kind of hobby.

This happened after I removed the majority of my other works from my website, only keeping my institutional critique diagrams. I’ve also got my AM/PM photography photos because that’s related to institutional critique. I think it makes my professional practice look better than having all the other works available on my website, as it dilutes the diagrams. It makes it look focused.

A lot of the splintering (I believe) is down to my possible undiagnosed ADHD. I have so many unfinished paintings, and I tend to start a couple of pages in my sketchbooks but leave them after.

 

My website:

www.jasminelee.com

 

A lot of the continuation of the diagrams is logistical. I’m paying a lot for the Adobe programmes subscriptions, so I feel I ought to get my money’s worth in using them for my professional practice, regardless of the push-pull relationship.

I journal a lot and have several diaries to show for it since adolescence, but I’ve started to journal events that I’ve been to and have been working on Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith. I used to have a more versatile art life, but I feel like Art School made my work fit into the white space aesthetic, and it made me uppity about what is art and what isn’t art (if I’m honest). It’s ironic because art schools aim to heal us from compulsory education. I think it’s just because I’ve unconsciously assimilated the attitudes of the art circle hierarchy. We’re destined to learn things that aren’t healthy for us, maybe.

So, with seeing my art life return, I feel like my soul is coming back.