Artistic Statement
Whenever I find myself digging through my artistic well, there are always two voices that guide me. I’ve named them, either because of my artistic personality or because I’m a crazy person, and their names are Python and Fincher. Python, of course, is derived from Monty Python and Fincher, of course, is derived from David Fincher. They’re easily my two biggest influences, constantly searching for dark recesses of absurd heights. These are the two wavelengths I thrive upon and everything I’ve ever written is guided by it. It’s often a chaotic argument in my mind about which voice i should follow more often, but there is always a clear winner.
I don’t know if this really constitutes as an artist statement. Truth be told, I’m not sure what my statement would be. I’m somewhat suspicious of artists that abide by mission statements. For me, the telling of a great story is paramount to all other goals of a play. Any deeper meaning is a side effect of that story, if it’s told correctly, and those deeper meanings can change so wildly from person to person that I find it pompous, and frankly insulting to the craft, to approach a story from statement first.
This is not to say that I dislike stories with a greater meaning, but it is to say that my artistic statement has no grander goal. No lofty ambitions. I simply tell the stories of people on societies fringes, I tell the stories of warring philosophies and moral ambiguities. I tell the stories of absurd super villain moose. But the audience takeaway from those stories is their business, not mine.
I don’t know if this really constitutes as an artist statement. Truth be told, I’m not sure what my statement would be. I’m somewhat suspicious of artists that abide by mission statements. For me, the telling of a great story is paramount to all other goals of a play. Any deeper meaning is a side effect of that story, if it’s told correctly, and those deeper meanings can change so wildly from person to person that I find it pompous, and frankly insulting to the craft, to approach a story from statement first.
This is not to say that I dislike stories with a greater meaning, but it is to say that my artistic statement has no grander goal. No lofty ambitions. I simply tell the stories of people on societies fringes, I tell the stories of warring philosophies and moral ambiguities. I tell the stories of absurd super villain moose. But the audience takeaway from those stories is their business, not mine.
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Vidalia Unwin
Artistic Statement
Whenever I find myself digging through my artistic well, there are always two voices that guide me. I’ve named them, either because of my artistic personality or because I’m a crazy person, and their names are Python and Fincher. Python, of course, is derived from Monty Python and Fincher, of course, is derived from David Fincher. They’re easily my two biggest influences, constantly searching for dark recesses of absurd heights. These are the two wavelengths I thrive upon and everything I’ve ever written is guided by it. It’s often a chaotic argument in my mind about which voice i should follow more often, but there is always a clear winner.
I don’t know if this really constitutes as an artist statement. Truth be told, I’m not sure what my statement would be. I’m somewhat suspicious of artists that abide by mission statements. For me, the telling of a great story is paramount to all other goals of a play. Any deeper meaning is a side effect of that story, if it’s told correctly, and those deeper meanings can change so wildly from person to person that I find it pompous, and frankly insulting to the craft, to approach a story from statement first.
This is not to say that I dislike stories with a greater meaning, but it is to say that my artistic statement has no grander goal. No lofty ambitions. I simply tell the stories of people on societies fringes, I tell the stories of warring philosophies and moral ambiguities. I tell the stories of absurd super villain moose. But the audience takeaway from those stories is their business, not mine.
I don’t know if this really constitutes as an artist statement. Truth be told, I’m not sure what my statement would be. I’m somewhat suspicious of artists that abide by mission statements. For me, the telling of a great story is paramount to all other goals of a play. Any deeper meaning is a side effect of that story, if it’s told correctly, and those deeper meanings can change so wildly from person to person that I find it pompous, and frankly insulting to the craft, to approach a story from statement first.
This is not to say that I dislike stories with a greater meaning, but it is to say that my artistic statement has no grander goal. No lofty ambitions. I simply tell the stories of people on societies fringes, I tell the stories of warring philosophies and moral ambiguities. I tell the stories of absurd super villain moose. But the audience takeaway from those stories is their business, not mine.