Portland, Oregon
Writer's Block
$150
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Artist Statement
Inspired by my mother’s stacks of unpublished and unfinished manuscripts and adolescent memories of our conversations at the grocery check-out line of pseudonyms used by best-selling romance novelists, I wanted to investigate what might cause a creative impulse to happen but then disappear, dead end, or incubate for a while. Simultaneously, I wanted to encapsulate the process of idea formulation and then its possible execution; where an idea may be a secret while in its brainstorming and constructing stages but once it is actualized it may take on an identity of a lie (such as that of a literary double) or a completed project that through its own process has completely disjoined itself from its original form or intent. Here the secret is the body of my mother’s words, ideas, and creative writing and the lie is the form they have taken, never in their intention, as a finished work made by someone else.
Artist Biography
Meghan Olson is originally from Florida but now lives in Portland with her husband and two children. She received a B.S. in History from Portland State University in 2002 and is currently participating in the Post-Baccalaureate program at Portland State in Painting/Printmaking.All images and text copyright the artist. All rights reserved.
