The Uncertain Studio

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Gene

I have been contemplating being an artist.
There are plenty of people who say that I am an artist, but I don’t see myself that way — generally speaking, my art is based on making information clearer through the design of magazines, brochures, environmental graphics, websites, blah blah blah blah blah.
And I’ve tried to be more traditionally artistic, played with pastels and dabbled with paints, but I just — well, I can’t draw. I suppose that drawing is just one form of art, and there are plenty more; this last weekend I delved into various pieces of art that I really liked and some I didn’t, but none of them had anything to do with drawing.
Today I learned that there is an open studio event happening this weekend, and one of the artists involved is just a few doors down from me. She creates art with photography and it looks rather good — I’ll be popping down the street to take a look at her studio.
Anyway, I keep thinking about converting my garage into a studio, but I’m not certain what kind of art I want to do and what messages I have to impart to the world. I just feel like I have nothing to say, and that my art consists of packaging other people’s words.
Still, it would be kind of cool to paint one wall of my garage in ChromaKey green, just in case I want to make a special effects film.