Friday, February 29, 2008

Kim Jones

Questions
  1. what is his inspiration?
  2. Why is his work done walking down streets?
  3. Does his work deal with fact and fiction?

answers and insights:

i can relate to him because he went from drawing(a 2-d medium) to sculpture(a 3-d medium). I like how he took his fantasy of war, his fight with polio, his reality of war, and used them all in his work as he grew older. he used all his life experiences to make his art. i like how he makes his altar ego his piece. his alter ego is the mudman and he uses his sculpture in a performance piece. this is a way for him to use his experiences and talk to others. art is a great way to get to meet new people and have conversations with them. its wierd that all his work deals more with generalizations between what real and pretend and how it becomes fact and fiction. i kind of wonder if he didnt walk down a boulevard and he just sat in a down town area if he'd have he same effect. If i saw him walking down the street i think i would be a little bit freaked out to talk to him so i so how did he come up with this as a way to talk to people?

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