#artistic-process

#artistic-process

Anderson's paintings are a poetic response to place, teeming with personal and cultural resonance, often relating to a feeling of 'being in one place while thinking of another.'

He taught me a method of working the full surface repeatedly, and then refining the work until a moment of balance is achieved.

When I finished art school, I thought I was going to do monumental sculpture, big works, and I did for a while. But what I started loving the most-actually always loved the most-was the start, where you figure out what you want to say.

I create collages. I take pictures of houses, technical objects, people, and basically anything I find interesting, and juxtapose them. I adjust the individual images, cut them out, and give them a different color. The result is a structure that is like an independent being. Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's awkward or even a little eerie. The individual elements are in tension with each other. They are like rhymes in a short visual poem.

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."

Kubo's piece evolves from an eight-second hand-drawn scene into a chaotic blend of sounds and colors, emphasizing the theme of 'expansion and enlargement'.

Successful creative problem-solving depends on how we think about problems. The best problem-solvers spend more time exploring the problem than generating ideas for solutions.

Creativity is unpredictable. Sometimes it comes easily, while sometimes it stubbornly refuses to flow. A musician can fumble...but nothing comes through.