my artist statement ( it has to be exact 250 words, i wonder if anyone can help me. thanks!)

Living in Italy is among unique experiences of my life. I find it is a privilege to take a break from modern life and allowing myself to reevaluate the way of art making, even living my life. The recent two months, my interest and practice have shifted significantly from the storytelling and mythology towards abstraction. My interest in observing the everyday object and realizing the potential of it. I enjoy the process of modifying things: turning something ordinary into something that is unusual. I like to work manually, sometimes it could be labor intensive, but I find the process is very relaxing and I enjoy it. My working method varies from project to project, sometimes I have a very clear idea, and a temptation to achieve a specific effect, sometimes, my works are experimentations. I love to explore materials, testing out ideas. I am not being concerned about the outcome and let myself to spend time with it. Usually, the piece just emerges in a very natural way. I gradually learned to trust my intuition and body knowledge. To me, the most challenging part of art making is to learn how to play. The idea of researching and experimenting has been very rewarding. I believe that living and making are not separated concepts. Going to art shows and look at the works that created by artists from over the world has become a very satisfying and inspiring to do. The ideas are deriving from the fertile land and the influx of cultured people.

Living in Italy has been one of the most unique experiences of my life. I find it a privilege to take a break from modern life and reevaluate the way of art making: even reevaluating the way I live my life. In recent months, my style has significantly shifted from storytelling and mythology and more towards abstraction. The reason why I'm doing this is to observe everyday objects and realizing the potential in them. I enjoy the process of modifying things: turning ordinary into something unusual. 

I like to work without the aid of a lot of equipment even though it can be labor intensive. I find the process to be very relaxing and I enjoy it. My working process varies from project to project. Sometimes I have a very clear idea about how I want to achieve a specific effect, and sometimes my works are just experiments. I love to explore materials and test out ideas. I am not overly concerned with the outcome and I let myself spend time with it. Usually the piece just emerges in a very natural way. Because of this, I've gradually learned to trust my intuition and body knowledge. To me, the most challenging part of art making is learning how to play.

The idea of researching and experimenting has been very rewarding. I believe that living and making art are not separate concepts. Going to art shows and looking at works that were created by artists from all over the world has become a very satisfying and inspiring. There are so  many ideas that were created from the fertile land because of the influx of cultured people.


I hope this helps. My correction has the intention of making it sound more like a natural conversation. It's hard to make changes to your essay without telling you why I did them, but I hope you can understand. If you have questions, just let me know.

Best wishes,

-aa