Composure.

So I think last night went well.

Ashley, Dan, Kevin and I all presented things that we've been working on lately.
During Ashley's crit, she mentioned her relationship to music in her art making, and also spoke in some music terms (ie. orchestrating, composing) I like these terms a lot better than some terms visual artists use like 'make' and 'create'. Maybe it's just because I'm not used to using them, but I feel like they connote something that is more purposeful. I think it's important to remember that we are the composers of whatever we do. We have the power to use elements of design and turn it into our language... but what happens along the way (hopefully) is that the elements add up to something greater than the sum of the parts. Color, contrast, shape, line, composition, are all tools that we can use to communicate. It's funny that terms that I thought were just things that made something look nice, are actually things that are essential to the language of visual art.

Since last night, I've been thinking a lot about these things, and I'm not totally sure if what I said above made any sense to anyone besides myself...