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I first met Luke when he was in an advanced drawing class. He very much had a set of ideas
and subject matter that he was very interested in and all you would have to do is just, you
know, introduce him to some new medium or something and he would just take off.
Studying art and having to develop a concept on art, I realize there's kind of been this
lifelong love and interest in animals. And in one way that I'm really interested in exploring
that and creating from that is by exploring animal mythologies. A lot of myths that I'm
looking towards this project are the Aesopic fables. Those are just chalk full of animal
metaphors, illusions. He makes connections in very interesting ways
and I think that's one of the things that's important for, you know, it's the job of the
artist is to make unexpected connections. I initially wanted it to be kind of abstract
forms, things like that, because that's what I was interested in, the very expressionistic
approach of art. And then over time it just came to be that I found these, you know, I
found these elements, three dimensional and two dimensional elements, that I could use,
I didn't want to...eventually I just shed myself of all limitations.
But my role, I think, has been is sort of helping him clarify his ideas, pointing out
things that he may not...he may not have noticed and then I think also a lot of it has just
been sort of a back and forth about how the pieces are working. You know he'll try something
out and I'll be kind of a sounding board. In your mind, how...how has he gotten up there?
Is the chain part of it or is the chain just a....
The most important thing that Professor Musnug has done for me is giving me confidence and
also just open me up. I don't' think any of this was present until she kind of brought
that out of me. The great thing about this honors project
for Luke is that he has had these ideas for years and, you know, the chance to really
get in there and chew on these ideas for a year is just...is fantastic.
I'm starting to understand more of what I want to do. You know, you can't really go
into art already knowing how you're going to make art twenty years later. What I'm really
trying to get at is just to have people stop for a moment and look at it and they can like
it, they can dislike it, but at least they're stopping to kind of contemplate on something
that I made. Even if it's for a moment.