- What inspired LeSeur? Compare what motivates you to create meaning.
LeSeur was inspired in 2017 by the rage and grief they felt the unjust murders of Black people in America. Ultimately pain was one of the main things they used as motivation because it also led to other feelings such as glimmers joy, love, and tenderness.
I'd say mental issues motivate me to make what I make. i make things to keep my mind off of life and the issues it brings. I make my work so that I can ignore all the stressful events in my life, to keep the depression at bay for one more day, to soothe the anxiety. that's really it.
- How does your choice of material, process, aesthetic, content, etc. reinforce your message?
There's really no process that I use to reinforce my message. there's not some specific message I ever want to send out with what I make whether It be a drawing or a prop. I just want to make the thing that people love from media become reality as closely as possible via 3D printing or drawing some cute goofy character I thought of at the moment. I've always felt as if the moment I start to add meaning behind the things I make or try to give my stuff a message, I would id stop being who I am as a person.
what you said reminds me of this exhibition:
ReplyDeletehttps://artyard.org/exhibitions/suleika-jaouad-and-anne-francey-the-alchemy-of-blood/
Using (art)making to cope
description of "The Ancient Child's Shield", 2023 included in the show
Anne Francey began making shields when her daughter, Suleika Jaouad, was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2012.
The shields — the majority of which are composed of small ceramic elements painted and fired by Francey and strung together with waxed thread — are inspired by Han dynasty burial suits that were intended to provide physical and spiritual protection in the next realm.
The ceramic rectangles are pieced together into abstract configurations, creating a symbolic whole greater than the sum of their parts.
“Each ceramic piece is a witness to the ups and downs of the days of my daughter’s illness,” Francey states, “and their assembling into a shield speaks to the need of a mother to offer protection when their child’s life is at risk and to the artist’s creative impulse to make sense of the inconceivable.”