As sad as it is to say, I don't visit galleries very often as I would like to because of work but I had a lot of fun with this outside visit. Now lets begin!
I think my entire assignment could've been about Susan Te Kahurangi King. Her art work was really fun to look at and just experience. The way she used color and repetition of characters was so interesting to pick apart. Im just a really big kid so I loved seeing all of the cartoons that she was using, it made me wonder why she chose them, I kept wondering why she was drawn to them. Her work was cute but also a bit scary to me. Some of the shapes that the cartoons took where ghastly, at least to me. However, I was still drawn to her pieces and was engrossed by her use of negative space. On a side note Im not quite sure who decided on it but I loved the way Susan's work was displayed.
Above all her story was what impacted me. A lot of my work has to do with silence and protecting those who cannot speak for themselves and then I come to find that Susan stopped speaking around the age of five...but she drew! How beautiful is that? She found her own way to communicate what she was feeling. I admire her parents for keeping her work so pristine. Susan used to be an outsider artist (maybe she is still considered one although I wouldn't agree) but I feel like now people are beginning to give her the attention she deserves.
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