Last class we watched Michael O'Reilly's "Glass Jaw" and Matthew Barney's "Order" from his "Cremaster" series. Both very different in their execution but still are able to give some type of catharsis. O'Reilly's film we see a light at the end of the tunnel after being barraged both mentally and physically by the outside world. In Barney's mythological "Order" we see a completion of some type of trial, yet we don't know for what purpose it was put into place and what the signicance of it was.
Despite their incredible budget variations (Barney was able to close down the Hirshorn while O'Reilly used a pixel vision camera found from a thrift store) both artists were able to achieve their vision. Compromise, something I once acknowledged but little else, is in fact one of the greatest opponents to artists and their creativity. To me, compromise is the outside world which limits and regulates your creative aspiration. However, it is a necessary aspect of the process and as these two artists can declare, that compromise sometimes does not negate creativity but rather gives it more substance.
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