Angela Kuczmanski's Manifesto

Angela Kuczmanski Manifesto Drawing:

I am a visually interactive environment composed of organic shapes in thought piled on one another forming a complete mass of thriving time in which there is no end or no beginning in this cycle of undying life my hands grip the stained surface leaving my mark in the process of interlacing my crude organic thoughts onto a three-dimensional facade of sex which births an embryonic fetus of nature’s forms naturally developing in an unnatural accident as I get drunk in the concept which grows each day I sit within the mountain of soft-red mold my body decomposing as I become one with the material for I am the creator of my own intellect gasping for breath in a technological societal monster I run for haven to my mountain of soft-red mold where the simple natural materials nurse me back to health and nature is the cave in which I masturbate in pleasure to the life growing around me.

Angela Kuczmanski Selects

The selection is from a response I wrote after reading/evaluating Matthew Goulish’s article, Criticism.

Goulish’s article is an art form in itself. In reading this piece a new insight has been opened on to how to view the world. Goulish attempts to aid us in the awareness of our surroundings. The world is full of new ideas and concepts waiting to be understood and comprehended. As we question the world around us we should always be aware and willing to discuss what the world has to offer. There is no end in trying to understand. If we were born immortal and had forever to learn, we still would not know everything. Our mind and perceptions on the world are constantly growing and changing.

By introducing the concept of criticism Goulish proposes the idea of engaging our mind critically. The two reasons stated are the ability to cause a change and the ability to learn to understand how to understand. Criticism calls for the action of people to think. Even though one may not agree completely with the critic, it causes discussion, which calls for thought, which then introduces the capability to learn. Criticism provides us with the opportunity of seeing an idea, thought, or image in a new light. This newfound awareness causes a change within ourselves and allows us to acknowledge who we are in this world.

IMA Selects

Tara Donovan

-“Untitled (Molecule)”

Indianapolis Museum of Art

2010

Tara Donovan’s layered landscape-like installation, “Untitled (Molecule),” is made from only two materials, Mylar and hot glue. Donovan is known for utilizing simple common materials to execute her installations and sculptures. She is dedicated to the process of engaging with these materials in a physical manner. As she works the simple, accumulated material morphs into an organization of biological forms, mimicking the way of nature and the way things actually grow.

Donovan’s work alike my own morphs into an organic three-dimensional collection of shapes. She uses simple materials and engages with them in a highly physical process, which is essentially exactly what I do. I am fascinated with her use of space in filling a whole room. Donovan tends to choose her material first before her idea, which I applaud her for. I believe the materials are the most important aspect of a piece. Experimentation of materials equals growth of thought.