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Like most artists, I hate writing the obligatory artist's statement. For me it's because I am reluctant to pollute or influence any viewers own interpretation of the work. I am not creating art or taking photographs or writing anything because I have a particular message to preach. Along with this I have an aversion to being misunderstood which tends to lead to either a blank mind state where I have no idea what to say or write and/or a tendancy to ramble on and on while skirting around a point even I am not entirely certain of by the time I finish writing or speaking. So at the risk of saying nothing and everthing I have prepared the following:
I don't create anything, eventhough my art is sometimes, perhaps always based on my own private and personal experience. For me it is as if the images, ideas and poems have always existed and I am an imperfect tool that pulls them into the material plane of actuality by vomiting, bleeding or singing them onto paper, wood, cardboard, canvas, stray napkins, old envelopes and discarded receipts where they can then be perceived by others in an infinite variety of ways, independant of my influence and based on each individual's own experience and personal history.
I am always looking for new experiences and interests but some enduring influences on my work are music, dance, myth, philosophy, other artists and poets, psychology, nature, science, the interplay of instinct, intuition, reason and the unknowable, my own fear of death and the unknown, memory, projection and how people connect and disconnect, politics of all kinds, mind/heart expansion, sexuality, mysticism and goofiness.
I am currently working on the layout for two chapbooks of poetry, artwork and photography which will be available soon, probably at Beyond Baroque and other small bookstores in the Los Angeles area. I also perform occassionally at various open readings in the L.A. area including on Tues nights at the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park and on Weds nights at the UnUrban cafe on Pico at 33rd in Santa Monica, CA as well as the first and third Sun of every month at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA and occasional Sun evenings at Abbot's Habit also in Venice, CA or at Little Joy in Echo Park
. I feel the spoken word open mic scene is a vital part of keeping what little remains of our 1st ammendmant rights in tact. Please support open mics participate and or attend as an audience member regularly! Please. My resume is below. Annette Sugden April 14, 2006
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