emma smith
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My work can be both overtly political, and demurely restricted.It might be a protest: peaceful or by any means necessary. Perhaps it is engaged in a sardonic drama of conflict and defeat, a safe landing on the sun, a horror marred by the beauty of its own telling. Maybe it has much softer corners; the nestling of opposing forces, soft boiled truths; the kind of which exist in a state of dormant beginnings. A bulbous comic tragedy, a shy old lie- teaching grandma to suck eggs. –Not a pretty sight. Death and recreation but no aberration. It wobbles between caricature and realism, gently resisting being what it seems in productive tenderness for its destructive functions or in destructive tenderness for its productive functions. |