January 4, 2011

A painter has brushes, canvas and paint to create art, a carpenter has tools and wood, and for some everything can become a tool or a material to make art. This is just another point of view, and I’m not saying is new. Is the art of combining materials with the nature of intuition, never knowing what it would be at the end, if it may have. The moment you are with the tools and the materials is when you start to create something, before you just have ideas, which is obviously necessary, but this moment brings you different thoughts of what to do, and second by second it change, maybe something broke, something didn’t come out how you expected. That’s the not knowing art I like to do. And at the moment you decide to stop, because you are tired, you have to go, a thing was made, it might become something different in a few days if you decide or it can stay like this for ever.

What I try to do when a casual vision (that’s how I call an idea) come to my mind, I take a pencil and somewhere to write. A few lines or a simple draw is enough, after when you are in the place you work, everything looks different, you start to see all what you have around you, you think what you need, what you have, what you don’t. And if…? So many things that you can think for ever, but if you start to do before you think,  it will start to be. And the best thing is that you should not care about what it will become, because you don’t know yet. It’s a good exercise to do, your mind goes all over your memories, your experiences and at the end you will discover what you made. We all have a lot of things at home we don’t use and we won’t use, so take all this things, put them on a table, take also whatever it can be a tool and start to create.

Nothing is garbage, it only depend how you look at it. A few weeks ago I saw a documentary called Wasteland, its about an artist Vik Muniz who make beautiful art taking things from the mountains of garbage which are nearby every city. So, at the bad nature moment we are, lets turn art to something different, is recycling, is discovering new tools, materials, and every time will be a new experience. The most you do this, the bigger becomes the universe of art. And last but not least, you have fun while you are doing it. So lets do what we don’t know what it will be.

Andres Kiefer

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