Frances Gootman (frankie)
Philosophies | Methodologies | Statements (in no particular order)
My work focuses on process rather than product. While I might end up with a finished piece from time to time, it exists only as a souvenir of the making.
Organizing the chaotic mind.
I’m writing about my work, but my work is about my writing, so now I’m writing about my writing, and responding with my work, but now I have to write about my work which is just a written response to work that is about me writing about my work. So as I write about my writing and work I realize that my writing is more about the writing I’ve written about my writing about my work, so I start writing about that.
To reorganize is to set out on a journey of disruption, untangling, categorizing, prioritizing sorting, and labeling. The synthesis of this process being a logical, navigable and orderly structure, but there’s always a stage in this process when we succumb to an even greater state of disorganization than that with which we began. The creative process is no different. Embarking on a creative work is a reorganization of thought.
There is beauty in this chaos.
My creative practice revolves and evolves with little consistency.
My process and work manifest as a junk drawer of topics, materials, and practices.
I allow my impulses to guide my making as I extract moments from my experience.
I seek to define the intangible through tangible means by giving my thoughts a place to exist outside of myself.
I begin with my personal truths to hopefully arrive at universal ones.