Carrie Mae Weems

 Hey Teach!


I decided to do the artist Carrie Mae Weems, because her work really interested during your lecture (sorry for being on my phone) and I really liked the story she weaved with her table work. Specifically how it seemed to be about her perception of life, and of being a mature women. I like how it portrays love, not that its how I see but more so how well she explains or shows it through her writing, in fact its a dual creative work that I reallly enjoyed and it's quite cool to see somebody put it together like that. Now that I've finished speaking on my initial experience I think it's time to do a little more research and see her other works, hopefully they live up to my hype. From the little I've seen I can already tell that she is a huge activist, somebody who speaks out with her words and fights, and she seems to be very stubborn/ mature/ strong from what her art speaks. I quite like the range of work she has though, especially how incredibly pretty but also dystopian she made the slave coast line look, something so disgusting looks so innocent, but I don't know if you can really blame the architecture. Regardless the whiplash of the context and the photo is very striking and I quite like it

 
Aforementioned photo.

As I dive into more of her works I see a lot of absolutely STUNNING landscape type images, I mean she was really genuinely talented, and absolutely technically skilled too. These are genuinely some of the best works I've seen, full of human emotion, passion, skill, love, and exploration. She has so many different environments and there's a very beautiful and clear progression of skill and experimentation as her works get older (younger?) newer I think? Whatever the later works would be called. I especially like her Sea Islands pictures.

Sea Island Photo

To specifically look at self portraits would be to harp on about the table which I sort of already did, but to avoid that I guess what she really seems great at capturing (to go more general and show why she inspired me) is the raw human life/ messiness that she puts into her works, you can see the hurt. She portrays the loneliness but strength of her character in the series with losing her daughters father but also the pleasure of good company, as well as the stress anger and spacing out. Specifically in the photo below which follows nice with the story that she didn't really want children, I like it because to me the stillness of her contrasted with the motion feels almost like she feels out of place, or stuck in the past, or perhaps even lost. It's really quite beautiful and if you don't read the descriptions it still can be interpreted, which is amazing. I also love the fact that the photos loop around back to the start, showing the cycle, which may or may not be intentional, but with her background I would believe it.

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