Trying to describe an abstraction like creativity, or the role of the artist, is tricky. Are artists both revered and marginalized because of the difficulty in describing what they do? Is the focus on the output, or on the relationship between the artist and the object created? The object, as context, is the translation of an idea into materiality. But wait. Maybe it isn’t the object at all. Maybe it’s the punk rock resonance of materials used to create the object; or how the object is conveyed beyond itself via imagery; or how the object melds with what is meant to be the exhibition of the object. Maybe it is all of these things and more. Some of the (artists)(conjurers of the supernatural) currently roaming the world – Lisa Walker, Lauren Kalman and Misha Kahn – discuss the relationship they have between the initial impetus of creativity and the resulting objects, images and environments they generate.
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