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Volume 9, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2977-6813
  • E-ISSN: 2977-6821

Abstract

This collection serves as a curated space, posing a deflected ‘interview’ with the author, highlighting the iterability of the response and complicating the ‘question’ of the artist interview. Through a collage of interviews and excerpts from musicians, poets, authors, fine artists and filmmakers, this interview explores beauty, its contextual conditioning and its elaboration, and considers the layered nature of influence, presenting a fluid, fragmented self and creating a limbo to free the self from an artificially defining context. Mimicking a long-form artist interview, it features headings and stylized citations. The chosen epigraphs introduce themes of plagiaristic and decentralized identity, contrasted with post-interview regret. The author utilizes external sources to distance herself from what is said, re-presenting her perspective. Hand-drawn e-signatures at the bottom of each page nod to the piece’s depersonalized nature, and quotations by multiple authors are sometimes paired to create meanings closer to the author’s intention. The piece concludes with a poem by the author, presenting influences and resultant artwork in blurry co-existence.

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Keyword(s): artistic intention; authorship; beauty; bricolage; deflection; influence; self

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