Friday, September 23, 2005

statements

1. The creation of art is intended to illuminate and reveal a narrative story that is a reflection of my voice.

2. My intention is to create art that illuminates and reveals a narrative story that reflects my voice.

3. The art is created to illuminate and reveal a narrative story that reflects my voice.

Which one or none???

4 comments:

Karoda said...

2 or 3, with more leaning toward 2. But I think there is some rule about writing an artist's statement around using personal pronouns...not sure...will be coming back to check comments because I'm curious.

Beth said...

I believe 1st person is acceptable. "I create art to illuminate and reveal a narrative story that reflects my voice."

gabrielle said...

#2 is the best yet....maybe you could say "my work is intended, etc." for a smoother syntax. I am so proud of your hard work...no one knows better how hard this is....and nothing is more boring than reading over and over againg, "I, I, I"....sound like the return to school what I did on my summer vacation.

Val said...

I think no 2 is the best. You could turn the words all around and say something on the lines of...'Creating art illuminates and reveals a narrative story which reflects my voice!' Thus getting rid of any personal pronouns at the beginning of the sentence.