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re: artist statements:
"i read it !!! DELIGHTFULLY INSANE TEXT !!! I wonder how much I only understand telemagically and how much would be incoherent to the boring majority, I LOVE IT ! but I am insane and KNOW you, I wonder if less overall content, or tangents could be more accessible to a larger general audience.. maybe more intriguing than puzzling? an exercise that I want to try for myself is to write and optimize my one page version, then optimize a half page version, then optimize a couple paragraph version, then a one paragraph.. all the way down to an optimized one sentence version, and if you can, a ONE or two word 'essence' of your artmaking DRIVE. THEN when you're done with this process, REWRITE ALL of the versions, in the opposite order to make sure that all of the expanded 'wholes' are in harmony with this reduced 'essence'. A friend pointed out once that she wrote her 'couple sentenses' AND her 'one sentense' version on a card in her pocket so they become automatic, helps her when she meets new people. they say "what is your art about? you have a sweet concise memorable sound-bite-ish version that you confidently spit out. If they care then they question and you tell more. I am not sane enough to follow this advice myself"

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it seems that you only identify the quality of your faith merely as exact adherence to a code, as if faith has no benefits that may be more convincing to an outsider who your trying to welcome in, when all you do is throw rules and judgments at people without backing them up by explaining the actual benefits of living that way, you're asking for the door to hit your nose, the details in your proposal imply you are much more willing to express what your faith is not rather than what it is, I believe that there IS actual value in the way that you live, as long as you stay positive (and I don't mean certain, which I know you are), I mean constructive and not destructive, It bothers me that you are not willing to share details about your life within faith, but when you choose examples outside your faith, you pick people cheating on marriage and even lusting after children, I believe most human beings who are not a part of your specific sliver of faiths, would see your examples as morally BAD. you are overly pessimistic about outsiders, your choice of examples shows what you assume of us, and that hurts feelings, you combine dogmatic language that can only "preach to the choir" with condemnation of categories of sinners that are obviously morally depraved, I think your message would be more intelligent if it aimed at the middle, why don't you depict a story about the conversion of someone who starts out as a kind intelligent human being who is not of your specific faith, tell us what he experiences that attracts him into your faith, that's who you should be trying to convince, most of us are a lot closer to being kind than killers, have SOME faith in humanity, I find the implications of your approach offensive (I know you didn't intend this)