BLOG (B) – (Cont. from “Collaboration is the New Black: Part II”) If I had to guess, Lauren’s face borders on an expression of strained-pleasant-surprise and abrupt rush with nervous ball of energy lodged midway in inexperienced throat locked at 50% spit and 50% swallow. For the latter, up or down could mean the difference between sweet public relief and graceless interview silence. Former, well, it just means it’s acting. In former’s case, we’re not sure where the motivation comes from (unlike with a physical blockage posed by one nervous ball of energy). We just know former is self-conscious. The next step would be to debate the kind of raw emotion attached to each expression.
LC – Well if you heard that, it must come from somewhere, right?
B – Lauren probably smiles, attempting to channel sweet n’ sexy while willing her words the muscle to successfully flip the line of questioning onto interviewer. (I’ve seen her do 35 girl push-ups in a row.)
LT – Yeah, I would assume so, just like with the characters in your paintings and videos that come from a real place, some actual experience that takes on a perspective unlikely contrived or considered.
B – Leslie is a gracious interview-er, not a vampi-re.
LT – So is it safe to say that the laws of collaboration applied to this constantly vibrating digital age that we live in allows for plenty of room to craw up into a ball with your laptop? So much of your subject matter gives viewers a sense of looking into a spoiled experience of sorts. It often feels like a reflection of a moment, arrangement, or relationship that failed in the real world and feels better all wrapped up in the idea world.
LC – Ideas, the separation between thinking and doing, has always been a major focus for me. I think I’m trying to bring that more into the fold of what I actually do in the studio. I execute so many drawings about “potential” works of art, sculptures and installations especially. I love depicting the dreamier part of life, the fiction that holds the potential to realize a way to make sense from non-sense. Depicting ‘fantasy’ flavored with the here and now of my everyday existence is my way of creating forms of storytelling that ring true in true life. After all, is it not the high in the sky ideas we chase after in hopes of delivering our meaning, our individual message to others? That’s the story I’m itching to tell!
B – “You can say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”…
LT – So it’s not just stripers that have trouble making and keeping appointments?
LC – No one’s good at that…(To be continued.)
