The Creative Eye

Sean Wilkinson
Untitled (Cleveland), 2005
Marc Suda
Sunflower I (Side View), 2007

One of the perks to my new internship over at DAI, is getting to attend some really fabulous lectures. Tonight's Regional Artists Lecture was given by two local photographers. I love hearing artists speak about their work, getting to understand and appreciate the work so much more. I really enjoyed listening to Sean Williamson speak. His work is kind of mysterious, ambiguous, and he had this sort of wonderful to listen to soft voice as he read a narrative he had written about his work. I like how he spoke about Dayton as this really ordinary place, because really, that's exactly what it is. He said he felt it was "sweet... and mournful..." and that really kind of captures this place.

I'm excited about getting back into the art scene. I miss that kind of excitement. I forget sometimes how much I love it, how much time I've invested into learning about it, how much it is very much a part of me. This internship is going to be a great thing... being in this kind of wonderful academic place where people are always learning, learning for the sake of learning to share it with others. It's all very community driven. It fills me up.