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On Talent
One thing I can do without, is this insistence from some that not only am I talented, but worse, that it’s a gift from some imaginary higher up and omnipotent benefactor/tress. I take exception to this sort of idiocy, it’s downright insulting and demeaning of all the hard work I have put into my art. Sorry, but what I have is not a mysterious god/dess given magical ability.
I have been interested in images from a very young age, been doodling and scribbling everywhere as a child and teen, and because I was actually looking and curious about lines and colors, I came to better understand them, this is not talent, it’s awareness.
I think there is an aptitude that helps in developing what is perceived as talent and it’s ones potential. My potential to be an astronaut is extremely limited as that would demand that I be interested, see passionate about such things as advanced maths, astronomy, and other sciences. Fact is, I suck in those fields of endeavor, I have very little interest in learning such things and therefore my potential to become an astronaut are nil.
Talent is not about style, about being famous or rich, it’s not about be popular or even demand that others love your art, talent is your potential in a given area of activity. This can be understood in part as your level of interest, of practicing, of time spent at understanding something. Above all else, I think talent is defined as how passionately you live potential.
Knowledge and technical skills are one thing, and this is desirable when one is a professional in any field. Talent is about your natural ability in something. I’d say it was something that, early on, becomes hardwired in ones brain. It’s how you react and live your environment, your instinct. We can speak here of behavior, that comes from knowledge absorbed as a child, about recurring patterns, thoughts and behavior. We often notice how consistent these patterns are in those we consider talented.
Talent is enduring and constant but it is not magical and certainly not endowed upon someone by a deity or higher power. It is time to acknowledge ourselves as fully sufficient and powerful enough as humans to develop our own talent, and this makes talent all the more special.
Joelle Circé
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My thoughts as a queer femme-artist
I reject the label of fine artist, I am a queer femme-artist. I reject the label of fine artist because it is steeped in a patriarchal slant that always considered women as lesser, not as talented or deserving. Emotions in Women’s art is not a simple bi-product of nature and emotion in men’s art is not a new creation that transcends the dictates of nature.
My voice as a queer femme-artist of transsexual origin is what distinguishes me from other artists. Asides from women, I also explore queer lives and people.
Beauty and the sublime in my eyes, holds little in common with any masculine or heterosexist views. I am not a disinterested observer, an eye without compassion, I am completely interested in all things women and feminine, I am filled with a burning desire to share and to understand. For me, to fully appreciate the Art of women’s lives, I need to be closely entangled in what my sisters see and feel, I need to smell, taste, touch and understand, I cannot obtain what I need in my Art from a distance.
My Art is always political, it has to be by the very nature that it’s personal. I subvert traditional art, fine-art, established aesthetics through the questioning of society’s treatment and attitude towards women. I use the techniques once taught nearly exclusively to men to promote the power and strength of women.
I embrace the erotic in my paintings and drawings. My art is post-feminist in nature and understanding. I attempt to disrupt, to bring questioning to the viewer, to push for a dialogue and to denounce violence and all forms of oppressions towards women.
For me, it’s often about freeing myself of the chains of a patriarchally imposed subordination of women in the arts by misogynistic edicts on beauty and acceptable topics. I transgress the rules of political correctness. I explore, through my Art, the female body, female sexuality and female thought. I insist on using a female discourse which freely speaks to the feminine, not as a weakness or lesser quality but as the powerful life energy it truly is.
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