by nao | Friday - November 11, 2011
WARNING- NAUGHTY LANGUAGE. I had started to think of my blog as the first stop on the road to recovery for the artists. Maybe that is giving me too much credit, but it helps to remember that I’m delusional.
by nao | Sunday - November 6, 2011
Tewz: Part of me, when I was on the show felt like, there's no way that they could have sent this piece home, because if you had been in the gallery, you would've seen that this is obviously not the worst piece and everybody liked the piece, including the artist (Kyle), everyone was like, aw man, when did you make that?
by nao | Sunday - October 30, 2011
Jazz-minh: I'm not sure, but to have the mentor tell you, you will be eliminated if you show this work. It's pretty serious. It was not indirect. It wasn't like I'm worried about you. It was like you will be eliminated. So...
by nao | Friday - October 21, 2011
Kathryn: How am I? Well... it's kind of like a public dissection. I'm laid out on that slab and it's that feeling of being cut open and your innards being completely revealed to the world and just total vulnerable nudity, and... So you know. Nao: You would know because you study the history of anatomical dissection right? So...
by nao | Thursday - October 13, 2011
U: I agreed with the judges on some points, and I don’t think I spent enough time editing the work, that was what I was expressing during the exit interview. N: uh huh, but at least your work was pretty, where Bayete’s and Sucklord’s… totally ugly. U: yeah… Well like you said it was pretty and they where looking for something more, they were looking for substance? N: Do you think there is more possibility in the “ugly?”
by nao | Wednesday - October 12, 2011
I hope to watch the first episode of Work of Art: the next Great Artist tonight 9:00 EST (only on BRAVO). Because, tomorrow I have an interview (yes, my first interview!) with the loser, or the contestant that is going home. I like the euphemism.