Artist Statement

The following is an artist statement I'm going to use for my junior review in the morning. I think it does a fairly good job of stating my intentions as an artist in a very general sense. I'd like to hear what others think about art, artist statements, dialogue in art, or anything related to this at all so please, comments are welcome.


Miguel Carter-Fisher
Artist Statement

As an artist I am interested in engaging in an emotional dialogue with my audience. I want a dialogue because a work of art can serve as the object of an experience for all those who view it, and in that I hope that my work acts as a medium between various individuals. These varying experiencing individuals I will try to face with openness, humility, respect, and criticism. I want to engage them in a dialogue because I want people to find their own voice as well as my own through the experience of my work and I want to create tension. And this dialogue is emotional because too often dialogues are limited to intellectualism, which is important, but nothing without an emotional impact. To think deeply is to feel deeply and to feel deeply is to think deeply and I want to inspire passion for life and a greater awareness of being in others, as great artist have inspired in me. I want to inspire a pluralism of experience, and to move away from the narcissistic fragmented individualism which neglects the profound ways in which we relate to art, life, and particularly each other.