Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Subject | Matter : Warhol Double Take

Self Portrait, 1986, The Modern Museum of Fort Worth Looking back at my post from the Warhol exhibit opening last year at the Rose Art Museum, I was surprised to see how little of the show I captured. Although due in part to my unfamiliarity with the artist, I think the real reason I refused to delve into Warhol's work was because I couldn't see anything more than surface matter. I never liked Warhol, no matter how much I was faced with his work....

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Problem of Being Original

As I have continued my work in research and writing post-graduation, it has become more and more apparent to me just how difficult it is to be original. All it takes to research a topic is one Google search, and one had likely yielded hundreds of thousands, if not millions of materials with which to work. In the museum field, I find myself asking why the research I yield has to be penned by me, when I can just cite my sources. Even worse,...