Illustrate it #3: Fur
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I don't know really... ha! ... it wasn't a bad thing in any sense that I was horrified to see a piece of my work defiled or anything like that, not at all, but it was really werid to see a piece of work re-interpreted and handed back looking so familar and yet, just so trippy and unfamilar.
I didn't necessarily 'like' the end result though I don't know quite why, but like I say it didn't offend me to see it.
In a way it highlights what I see as something bad in my own ongoing aesthetic sense. There is a way of drawing, a slant to what I do that is borne of certain elements of myself, my experiences and my upbringing. All of my work, always, is a struggle to rid myself of those inbuilt influences/ control elements and I just can't do it. My work always looks like my work. If I deliberately and wilfully approach my work with the absolute determination to create soemthing (for example) so completely free and wild and loose, it will end up looking like my studied attempt at being free and wild and loose, using the same brain to control the same hands as always. So I am trapped, and I can't escape.
You have interpreted and played this piece back to me as something unfamiliar and not done by my hand at all, and yet within it is the very aesthetic that I fight so hopelessly to remove from my work.
Probably more in-depth than you expected, but there's my answer! I feel like I might throw myself into my favourite canal again once I've finished here.