My response to Vaughn’s lecture on his work.
Does being an artist come with responsibility? Yes, it seems
it does.
I was pleased that Vaughn seemed honest and transparent when
he talked about his feelings towards his work. I once was in a workshop with a
teacher who said that mediocrity did not leave his studio. I had to think if I
had every created anything that I didn’t consider more than mediocrity. In his
lecture Vaughn mentioned several times that he was showing his work to various
people but would undermine his work by saying ‘oh, just wait until you see what’s
coming next’. That is very relatable.
I haven’t seen pin hole photography in a long while. I think
my last experiment ended up all black. I’m still a tad confused about the
process. Do you process the negative in a darkroom, and then scan them into a
digital file and have that printed somewhere? What does it mean by you do ‘everything
wrong you can think of in the darkroom’? Where do the black border/splashes
come from? Non photography inquiring minds want to know.
Over all of his art that Vaughn showed I would have to say
that his earlier assemblages were what caught my attention the most. That is
probably since I am a 3D’er myself. He said
that he would walk around looking for places to shoot and would come across these
things that were beautiful. These things (corn, rocks, snails, etc.) eventually
made there way into a series of assemblages that were smart and sophisticated.
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