Most people who like art can’t afford to buy it. Like most young artists, I didn’t experience art directly but instead through pictures in books. It’s like music. Most people experience music through recordings. We had a revolution in music as a result of the recording industry. For me it was really important to get my work out there so people could see them without having to go to galleries all the time. That’s basically saying: if you don’t live in New York, then fuck you. I didn’t want to be that guy. I wanted the books to be accessible.
Halle Butler, author of Jillian has been working with Chicago-based filmmaker Jerzy Rose on a new project: Neighborhood Food Drive, an "anxiety-ridden film about two egomaniacal restaurateurs descending into a nightmare world with their unpaid intern."
Wannabe is a blog series by Chicago area artist Chris Prunckle documenting his trials and tribulations as a wannabe artist. Check back next week for a new posting.
What make this collection complex and worthwhile for both serious and casual listeners is that Hopper is well aware of how we always teeter between what we want from our music and what we can get. Nor does she claim exemption, stating plainly in the collection’s introduction: “I am painfully aware of every single thing that I need from music, embarrassed by what I ask of it.”
