Total Freedom
By Jeanne Graff
JIM FLETCHER. Total Freedom feels different from Vzszhhzz because your writing is so affected by the time that it’s happening in, and this is a different time.
JEANNE GRAFF. When I read it again, I’m even surprised myself of what the story is. . . . It’s like, how can you explain how you make art, you know? We live our life, and then we chat we discuss, and then pouf, there is a piece of art. I love how Kembra speaks about it: I’m gonna do an artwork OK so here is the art supplies and here is the wall. That’s it. That’s how you make art, right? The thing is, our entire life is art, so suddenly you just produce something, no?
“Graff’s texts hold at their core a contagious wonderment at the surreality of motifs and symbolic phenomena in the life she shared with her artist friends. Her observations and wide-eyed ruminations are woven into analogical vignettes constructed from time spent in wanderlust of those infected by it in equal share. A delight and a voice discovering ways to express its idiosyncrasies in a language both familiar and always anew.”
—Juliana Huxtable
By Jeanne Graff
JIM FLETCHER. Total Freedom feels different from Vzszhhzz because your writing is so affected by the time that it’s happening in, and this is a different time.
JEANNE GRAFF. When I read it again, I’m even surprised myself of what the story is. . . . It’s like, how can you explain how you make art, you know? We live our life, and then we chat we discuss, and then pouf, there is a piece of art. I love how Kembra speaks about it: I’m gonna do an artwork OK so here is the art supplies and here is the wall. That’s it. That’s how you make art, right? The thing is, our entire life is art, so suddenly you just produce something, no?
“Graff’s texts hold at their core a contagious wonderment at the surreality of motifs and symbolic phenomena in the life she shared with her artist friends. Her observations and wide-eyed ruminations are woven into analogical vignettes constructed from time spent in wanderlust of those infected by it in equal share. A delight and a voice discovering ways to express its idiosyncrasies in a language both familiar and always anew.”
—Juliana Huxtable
By Jeanne Graff
JIM FLETCHER. Total Freedom feels different from Vzszhhzz because your writing is so affected by the time that it’s happening in, and this is a different time.
JEANNE GRAFF. When I read it again, I’m even surprised myself of what the story is. . . . It’s like, how can you explain how you make art, you know? We live our life, and then we chat we discuss, and then pouf, there is a piece of art. I love how Kembra speaks about it: I’m gonna do an artwork OK so here is the art supplies and here is the wall. That’s it. That’s how you make art, right? The thing is, our entire life is art, so suddenly you just produce something, no?
“Graff’s texts hold at their core a contagious wonderment at the surreality of motifs and symbolic phenomena in the life she shared with her artist friends. Her observations and wide-eyed ruminations are woven into analogical vignettes constructed from time spent in wanderlust of those infected by it in equal share. A delight and a voice discovering ways to express its idiosyncrasies in a language both familiar and always anew.”
—Juliana Huxtable