The art world, like so many others, has its own language.  It’s spoken by curators, gallerists, and art writers everywhere.  As artist Raul Cordero puts it in describing his Transient Poetry series, it is “A language taught in art schools, heard at intellectual theoretical events or commercial art fairs; which many learn how to speak as a matter of survival..”

 

When we begin our journey as artists, all we want is to create, to express ourselves.  We often simply pour out what is inside without a thought of how to explain it.  Then we need to write an artist statement for a gallery, a grant proposal or website text and we find ourselves searching for a way to describe intellectually what is an emotional journey.  Words often fail.

To see more of Raul Cordero‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.