Initially I started to make work, take up photography again, because I had gotten clean. I spent the majority of my life in drug addiction unable to accomplish anything accept landing in jails and institutions. So when I had some distance between myself and drugs I realized that I had all this new freedom and that was very empowering. I had no motivation to go back to college for anything other than something I was passionate about. I was very much into the darkroom in H.S. and knew that if there was anything that I was certain of it was that I wanted to pursue photography again. Since making the decision to come to SAIC it has been made clear to me my level of naivete-and still is. Initially my motives were sincere but generic. I see now, that I have the responsibility to generate awareness with my work. To give myself and others an opportunity to see just where we stand. The work is mimicking conditions of modernity. The contraction of time, the joining of the disparate and foreign, the standardization of the unstandardizable and pathology of the spirit. Through non-discriminatory practices a new logic can surface.
laz:
i love and applaud your honesty in the first part, but i suggest to dropping out everything before
'i have the responsibility...'
talk about the act of taking on the responsibility
the rest is interesting, the last sentence is elegant!
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