"No amount of poor padding with theory is going to make work look any more convincing or intriguing than it already is. I look at everybody’s images first. Then I go to project statements. Then maybe I read the artist statement. I am looking for plain language: ‘I am doing this and I am going to do this thing with it.’ I have stayed away from reading the more poetic, theory-heavy, philosophizing artist statements because they kill it. Leave the interpretation to us, the audience. Someone else will put it into words at some point."

Shannon Stratton, ThreeWalls

via Art / Work | Shooting Wide Open

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I concur.

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