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Partially, To create a space, To experience a sense of reality, To become active in a state of being, artists and audience.
Often, I start by defining a question, a limitation, I make sure to empty my body of unnecessary information, I formulate a way
of behaving that fits the context of work happening now.
Therefore, Each work is specific in its own structure, aesthetics, style, and texture, It is about experiencing emotions rather than illustrating moods, sensing the borders between things, rather than the things
It is about reality and fiction, presence and absence, concrete and invisible. It is the gap between what Is and what we perceive.
It is about the quality of attention, saying “Yes, I don’t know”.
It reforms definitions, resists itself. It accepts that the present disappears, and that presence is relative.
Eventually, It is about reaching one person’s eye and soul--Their sense of reality. It is interested in appearing as one thing-- the illusion of Freedom.
Michael Getman
Yes, It Does
Article Series by Michael Getman highlighting Artists and thinkers, influential forces and inspiration, as well as the groundbreaking pioneer generation of the queer community.
Icons who operated out of the closet in the dark days when LGBT people were outlawed, whose stories and struggles have shaped the LGBTQ culture and the community as we know it today.
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