Here is a new sculpture featuring shifting color patterns, rotating geometry, and flat, graphic marks that wriggle across different planes.

I just read that first sentence again. The problem with writing about art is that it gives the impression that those words were part of my plan in making the work, like I started the sculpture with a checklist of three items, and once I accomplished each goal, the piece was finished. In fact, I just made the thing and then later conjured words to describe a completed process. Part of the fun of making artwork is relaxing into the lizard brain, pre-lingual and reactive. But then writing about the artwork kind of de-emphasizes the making and focuses on the thinking, which, while useful (or else I wouldn’t write about artwork), misrepresents the experiences of making and looking at art.

Sometimes it’s awful to read what artists have to say about art, theirs or others’, but sometimes it’s great, and it can make the artwork bigger and richer. At least with visual art, you can stop reading the words and look at the pictures.