Always make your work be personal.
And, you never have to lie. If you lie, you will only trip yourself up. You will always get caught in a lie. It is very important for an artist not to lie, and most important is not to lie to yourself. There are some questions that are inappropriate to ask, and rather than lie, I will not answer them because it’s not a question I accept. So many times we are asked things in our work or in life that you want to lie, and all you have to do is say, “No, that is an improper question.”
So when you get into a habit of not lying when you are writing, directing, or making a film, that will carry your personal conviction into your work. And, in a society where you say you are very free but you’re not entirely free, you have to try. There is something we know that’s connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
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Ignacio Torres’s STELLAR project: This project began from the theory that humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a stars death. I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies. The models organic bodily expressions as they are frozen in time between the particles suggest their celestial creation. In addition, space and time is heightened by the use of three-dimensional animated gifs. Their movement serves as a visual metaphor to the spatial link we share with stars as well as their separateness through time.
The Block (1971), Stamping Ground (1971) and Manhattan Suite (1975) were a few of Romare Bearden’s pieces that made me fall in love with the red brick buildings found throughout cities such as Harlem, Detroit and Chicago. When I look at his work, I can hear him whispering in my ear, telling me to look again, to observe the streets, the people, the sounds around me, to find the rich, colorful, gritty, soulful beauty that lies beneath each layer of who we are. His work is poetry. It is simple and it is complicated. Each shape placed on the page has intention without trying too hard.
If I could go back in time, I’d ask Romare to dance.
-Aida Millett
