And then i make invisible art

No really. I started painting the urns on paper with water. The water evaporates, leaving an imprint but no actual residue. Kind of hard to photograph but you get the idea.




















Then i started making "Face Prints" onto paper with water. A little more intimate, more about the physical body, and maybe a little about the action of doing it (though i try to avoid that in this case). But still, almost no one around me was into it (Kind of the running theme all semester).





I've kind of always had the problem of being a bad communicator. My art and writing always gets called unclear or even cryptic. It's a really big question for me how to remedy that, especially now when i'm realizing my bigger concern, compared to which the whole "death" thing is really just a topic. I'm trying to resolve for myself the issue of Truth in art. Is (my) art a depiction of a particular idea or is it the idea itself? For example, someone suggested that to make my water-on-paper pieces more clear i should use ink instead. But the whole point to me was that there was nothing left behind. So here is where i start to struggle...If my work really is to communicate to people, how crucial is this honesty? Am i becoming a prima donna? Only time will tell.