12. An Artist Without Merit

I’m the kind of person that finds it difficult to get going making art (well making anything really), I will draw a line, it won’t be right, I’ll scrap it and start again. I feel like I’m always on this quest for perfection which always leaves me feeling anxious and normally results in work undone or out of time before a deadline. In a way I am creating an alter ego which will give me licence to be reckless with work…or work in a more organic way which will require me breaking some old habits.

I will be making art I don’t believe in. A lot of it.

My post truth art needs to be impulsive. The intention is to overload you with artwork, artwork with no particular common thread and with limited thought and executed in a deliberately poor or unskilled way.

Much like being overloaded with information in this post truth media climate, I want to leave you in a state of confusion to whether I’m for real and feeling like you don’t know where to start with my exhibition of tat!

I intend on having a description for every piece of art I make, all relevance in after thought. I will create the art first and then relate it to the political climate in some way.

As a reflection on the current state of news and media I am taking something that I have decided is true and circulating it until it becomes true.