by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Mar 14, 2022 | Artist Statements, Reflections
This week has been challenging for my why, so I got to thinking about your why. Why do we do what we do? Why do you? Why do I? I sat at my kitchen table playing solitaire (clears my mind!) and thought about how I used to think our why was baked into our personality,...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Mar 3, 2022 | Reflections
Today, while pinning up my hair after a warm shower, I was struck by the luxuriousness of this quiet, simple activity while Ukrainian women, children, and men sleep in the subways, in freezing cold underground garages, or in the cement bunkers ironically built by...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Jan 29, 2021 | Artist Statements, Reflections
It was 2002. My book, Writing The Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work had been published and I was flummoxed. How could I get it into your hands? Websites were just revving up on this new-fangled thing called the Internet, so I headed over to a...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Dec 30, 2020 | covid19, Reflections
It turns out that my local Apple-approved repair shop couldn’t sell me a computer because Apple was “hoarding” their supplies. Even though I ordered three days after my computer died, Apple had an 8-week backlog. EIGHT weeks…no computer. At this point it’s late August...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Dec 15, 2020 | Reflections
I have this pattern of disappearing and reappearing. You get emails from me, blog posts, a few events/products, and then I’m gone again. Is it my generation (growing up with kerosene lamps and candles, running cold water (no hot) instead of computers, cell phones and...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Aug 27, 2020 | Artist Statements, Creative Resilience, Reflections
When you’ve read as many truly awful artist statements as I have, it begins to dawn on you that maybe, just maybe, the problem starts at the very beginning, before sliding down the slippery slope of awfulness. What if accurately defining an artist statement was the...
