"i <3 attention"

doing some writing today...
and I've known this all along, but to see it on paper somehow looks different. I've come to realize that my desire to express things with the perfect words, perfect imagery, etc... stems from really wanting to FEEL. I continue to find myself wrapped up in my emotions- happy to the happiest... proud to the proudest... angry to the angriest... sad to the saddest... sassy to the SASSIEST... modest to the modest-est (?) humble to the humblest...

I like to write. I pride myself on my ability to find the perfect words to illustrate fully what it is I'm feeling/ trying to express. I know I'm not the only one who does that, but I think I'm pretty good at it.
So I'm thinking about these quotes of mine.
The idea came to me to build pieces that are representative of their moments... incorporating some personal or background information... insight if you will.

I dunno.
Collage? I guess we'll see.
Rebecca mentioned a place here in town called The Independent Publishing Resource Center.
LETTERPRESS!!!! I'm so excited to check it out. I'd like to incorporate letterpress work in my project. Seems appropriate. I think. 

Last week Colin had us doing some free writes in class- always helpful for me. We were writing about our work- one piece in particular- from the perspective of an uninformed viewer. These are the things I pulled from the writing that I found useful:

(these are quotes from my fictitious viewer looking the piece pictured below)

"I can't tell what it is, but it looks like it's supposed to be something."

"That's an interesting way to view artwork- get away from it... and kind of don't look at it."

"This artist seems to be motivated by abstraction, deconstruction, organized nonsense, detail, and... attention- this artist wants you to stay and figure it out."

"attention" 

It's true. I love attention, but in some ways don't we all?

So maybe this is not as much of a revelation as I thought, but I think it's so interesting that it comes out in my art. I hadn't noticed that before, which is strange because now it seems so obvious. 

"i heart attention." 

That ought to be a SHIRT...