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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Jeremiah Douglas Stroud
issue of audience reception as being a crucial component of your decisionmaking process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?
Ultimately, I think it is more important for me than an audience. However, I don ' t think there is a large gap between the viewership and myself. I try to distance myself from my work, which enables me to become a viewer. The language I use is as honest as I can be. Blatant and confrontational. It allows so much room for viewers to evaulate what is experiencial to them. When making decisions about my work, I do not base it on audience reception. My decisions come from my evolution and understanding of politics and its effect on me.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Jeremiah. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
It is difficult to foresee the future and have a certainty of what will be made. Making work based off my personal story and contemporary politics makes for an everchanging body of work. I would tell the viewers to keep theirselves updated on my work and they will see how I evolve overtime.
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com Through The Ages, Photo Collage, 47 " x 33 ", 2016
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