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In which we wax poetic, make glittering generalities, judge and are judged, and all that jazz.

Name:Alison B
Location:Michigan

Alison was born and raised in the seaside city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Showing her leadership qualities even in her youth, she was Head Girl of Collegiate High School for Girls in 1985. Alison grew up in Basildon and left school at sixteen largely unqualified. She spent time as a shop worker before embarking on a piano tuning course which she had to abort in the second year as the single, Only You, became a worldwide hit. Alison achieved an international reputation as a banjo player by pushing the instrument out of its familiar Appalachian settings and into new musical territory. Alison became the 1993 recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in documentary photography for her photographs of child labor in Asia. Since then, she has lived with exiled Tibetans in Nepal and India for over a decade, recording their culture and the challenges which exile has brought.

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Quantity/Quality



I just made five paintings like this one in one week. They are small, on paper, done in gouache. This is the path of LPV (low production values) as individual pieces, but greatest lying in the quantity. They're nice as a series of five, but not as nice as my "regular" paintings - based on an idea that either isn't worth investing a month in, or an idea that requires so many parts that I would have to spend years on (which is the same, I guess, as an idea 'not worth' investing as much time in). I think that the only thing that makes my work "good" is the amount of time spent on it - hey, it may be poorly drafted, but I spent like a hundred hours on this - it must be great. But maybe that's just me.

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