Art as defined by a 19-Year-Old me

Here's an entry from an old journal... scribbled in pencil when I was 19 and in art school... 

08-23-2000

"Art shouldn't be about 'the every day'. It should be about my everyday. It shouldn't talk about how women feel about a subject. It should be about how I as a woman (and a person) feel about it. 

Just to make people catch a small glimpse of my existence. It's not much but it's worth living for. 

After all - isn't this why people have children - in a way their kids become their audience AND their work of art at the same time. Like hitting two birds with one stone but both birds fly off... What do they leave other than a memory?

I want to be that memory in someone's head. I want them to think one day: 'Wow. That [which I created] change how I look at the world.. even for a short while.' 

And through their memories, I will have existed, I will have lived, even if it is for a moment."

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[Neloo21]

chi mi gee toh, deeeevoneh.

JK...you will always remain in my memory :)