This blog is intended as a platform to share some of my artwork and ideas. Creativity happens in all areas of my life. It has become more difficult to sort out the fine art stuff so I have stopped trying and accepted that art and creativity happens even while baking, or drawing, or sculpting, or knitting, or gardening…you get the idea. I jump around from one thing to another. And am essentially a believer in the statement posited by Joseph Bueys who once stated in answer to a question from a student that everything under the sun is art. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/joseph-beuys-revolution-us Starting in 2013 I spent a year living and teaching art in China – I’ll post more about that later – but while I was there I learned that the word for rabbit is tuzi. My students taught me how to pronounce it and they showed me that the man in the moon wasn’t a man at all but a rabbit in the moon – who knew? The same time as I was teaching there, the Chinese launched a rover to explore the moon called the Yutu, the Jade Rabbit. A friend living back home in America who is very interested in astronomy first made me aware of this. So when I asked what she would like me to bring back when I returned she said just come back safe and then reconsidered and said, “well I wouldn’t mind a jade rabbit.” It was then the lunar rover landing, my student’s tutoring and my friend’s interest and request all beautifully entwined initiating a quest for all kinds of rabbits in all kinds of forms. So the title of my blog is essentially ‘ArtRabbit’ for an artist that jumps from one idea to another…except that ArtTuzi has a better ring to it and better represents me to you.
Photo of me with a Tuzi. This public sculpture, artist unknown, is leaping from the building onto the sidewalk. One is forced to walk under or around it. Beijing, China 2014.
ArtTuzi 