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What I took away from some of the ideas and the work Aggie
Zed shared during our evening together:
I like her
philosophy about how she starts drawing…she
begins and feels free to fail to get failing out of the way. The failing can free you to move forward. Her drawings
and paintings resemble the form of her sculpture. Looking at her the drawings
makes me question which came first the drawings, paintings or the sculptures. Her drawings are muted but yet they have a rich
color. She draws very loosely and it
gives the appearance that her ideas flow easily. She stands and uses her full
arm to make loose strokes and marks while drawing and painting. Dripping is fine and good.
I enjoyed her idea
of leaving open space purposely in her sculpture. I enjoy the negative spaces that I see in the wire
forms. I appreciate her sharing that she has used the wrong paper or materials
when she was drawing or painting but that was okay. One doesn’t need to be too stuffy about their
work.
I appreciated her
critique of my work. I need to put more
of myself into my work.
“You work out of what you know, and in
order to reach other people, you really have to work out of what you
know." This is a quote from an
article in which she was interviewed and
this is essentially what she told me Wednesday night.
Another excerpt and quote from the article-
“…But instead of calling herself a storyteller,
Zed thinks of herself and her work as a catalyst. "I'm like the person who
shows you one page of a story and lets you guess the rest. I see my paintings
that way, like you're opening a book at one page, and hopefully you think
there's a whole story there, and you'd like to know what it is," she says.
"I think it's great to just come into the middle and be provoked to think
about it." I can also relate this concept to my critique because I need to
make art which one would want to look at and ask what’s the story.
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