i was thinking about your photography ideas. lately i've realized how completely i am in love with the image. Roland Barthes said, "the image has the last word" (i think that's the second time i've quoted that? god, i'm obnoxious). i think my love of the image is closely tied with a lot of things in my life - my fascination with how images of women function in our culture, how images of bodies are desseminated throughout our culture, and how all these things communicate a rich mixture of lies, truth and everything in between. i also love text, i love economy of text, i love how words and language can be twisted and hybridized in so many interesting ways (i have a fascination with parsing apart the names of brand name drugs - try it sometime, it's fun). i have no idea how to incorporate text into my work, it is so, so hard and so loaded (this difficulty with text was actually my thesis for my BFA....i wasn't required to have a thesis, but i made one anyway).
obviously, this is why i love this lady:
i wrote a paper on her for a class last spring. it's weird loving Barbara Kruger and being around clay artists, no one has these interests and i can't really talk about them to anyone. sometimes i really think i should have just been a graphic designer. i would've been a lot happier (and not as poor).
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