On Artist's Statement

I was successfully avoiding writing an artist's statement as well as any commentary to my projects for at least 9 years. I saw it simply as being redundant: if I felt like I needed words to express myself, I would have been writing. Images (from my perspective) were meant to be seen; they either worked (by resonating with the viewer) or they didn't. I believed that if an image didn't work no amount of writing on the subject of that particular image would fill in what was amiss in the first place. However, for a while now I've been contemplating the idea presented by John Paul Caponigro in one of his articles on creativity. He wrote: "Like making images, writing is a process, a process of making thoughts and feelings clearer. Often, you don't know what shape the final product will take, until you finish. At first I resisted about writing about my images. Now, I find the process so valuable that I've made it a part of my artistic process. Every time a new body of work arises, I write. As a result of writhing, I gain a better understanding of the work I did, the work I'm doing, and the work I am going to do. So do the people who see my images, surprisingly, even if they don't read what I write." A couple days ago I felt like a mere contemplating wasn't enough anymore, and that it was time for me to step up and write: after all "a better understanding" of what is it that I do is definitely worth of gaining. Below is my first attempt.