Deanna Lee
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
could be considered an abstract activity, there is always a way of giving it a permanence that goes beyond the intrinsic ephemeral nature of the concepts you explore. So we would take this occasion to ask you if in your opinion personal experience is an absolutely indispensable part of a creative process. Do you think that a creative process could be disconnected from direct experience?
I think the answer depends on how one defines personal experience in relation to one’ s art; an artist’ s experience or identity can play a greater or lesser role in the creative process, depending on the individual. I think that a creative process can exist without one’ s personal experience playing a significant role, at least not intentionally, but one’ s experience will always affect one’ s decisions, in the end. For example, in my hair cloud wave series of paintings and my drawings through 2010, I referred more directly to some Asian art motifs. These elements motivated me but not to a greater degree than motifs from other, less personally specific sources, such as nature. But over time, I increasingly feel that my direct and personal experience is integral to my ideas and creative process.
You allow an open reading, a great multiplicity of meanings: associative