The Challenge of Articulation
I often find it incredibly difficult to talk about my work. The more I create, the harder it becomes to articulate what I’m feeling and thinking. My art is deeply personal, rooted in my emotions and experiences, and trying to distill that complexity into words often feels impossible.
I worry about misinterpretation. What if I explain my intentions and limit how others connect with the piece? Or worse, what if I say too little and my message gets lost?
Yet I’ve come to see this struggle as part of my growth. Writing about my work helps me clarify my thoughts, and inviting dialogue with viewers opens up meaningful conversations. I’m learning to embrace the ambiguity—sometimes, a piece speaks for itself.
Talking about my art may never come easy, but each time I try, I discover more about my creative journey. Art is about connection, and in those moments of sharing, I find the true beauty of expression. It’s not just about what I create; it’s about the conversations that unfold.
Even talking about the colours and why do I choose specific range of colours. It's interesting to see how it's been changing a year after year. How from very bold and contrast colours I'm moving towards softer choices. I'm trying to blend my colours rather than just do colour blocks and use very fine lines. I think it says a lot about me as a person, it says that I'm becoming more confident, my art choices come from calmness rather than from chaotic experiences that were stressing me. I want to learn how to blend more but make my art stand out. I want it to be like water in a way if this comparison makes sense. It takes time to blend though and it takes courage as well. So many times it happened over the past few weeks that I had to redo it again and again. Sometimes it just takes days...
Coming back to explaining my artworks and talking about them, I can say that I don't like talking about myself and my artworks are a part of me, there are my creations, maybe that's why? Should I consider my artworks as my babies and proudly talk about them? Maybe that would help. I think I need to distract my artworks from myself and that's probably when the right words will take place.
