Nonetheless, I am sure that not just in the beads but in all my other work, including my working process, there are metaphors to something or many things in my life.
find it humorous when people ask the question ‘Is it art?’ For me what exists is those people who have this urge to create.
What does art mean to Maxine? “Art” is a big word and I think its meaning differs with every individual. I think “art” is a term that was invented in order to categorise the output of individuals who perhaps are more creative than others and who are called “artists” (this obviously begs the question; “what is an artist”?).
So I think by including and excluding what we think fits and what doesn’t under the umbrella of ‘art’ is very limiting and suffocating. I think this is why the more I work, the less I think about “art”.
I do believe that we as humans are born with a level of creativity. In But perhaps putting a finger on some people, this urge to what makes me go into the studio create something is stronger than every day and work might mean in others so much so, that it the end of my artistic practice becomes an important aspect of because it is precisely that search their lives. Then there are those in understanding my need to make individuals whose creations my work, is the reason why I make manage to touch others deeply. it. And this is what is important to me I am also very careful not to give and maybe what differentiates art any suggestions to the viewer from craft. These creators who have because their own interpretation of this ability to ‘touch’ people, can do the work should not be so in any form, even those forms constrained, hence why most of my which are not considered to belong works are untitled. to the category of “art”.
I do not like to think about what “art” means and what it doesn’t. I
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