Floria Sigismondi
[RS Gallery] • The multi-disciplinary work of Floria Sigismondi encompasses film, video, photography, and installations. Using images derived from hallucinatory dream-states she blends it all in a theatrical and poetic manner for both the commercial and art worlds.
MR: What's your personal mantra?
FS: In order to find ourselves we must destroy ourselves.
What does the role of the Artist mean to you?
To pose questions that offer alternate ways of looking at things and situations. My overall direction can change through time, but the quest for personal truth is the reason I create. To create with no self-censorship. I learn more about myself through creating. It doesn't matter what medium really. Take it all away and I will draw in the sand with a stick.
What is the driving force behind your creativity?
Passion has always filled my art... to be able to translate my feelings and emotions into celluloid. I was made to create and have dedicated my life to it as far back as I remember. I learned passion from my father, who at 82 is still an opera singer with unwavering dedication.
What transformative experiences have influenced your life and how has that manifested in your work?
The birth of my daughter in October 2004. Making a human has been the biggest, rewarding and challenging thing I've ever done – my most personal work. I've learned a lot from her – of mortality and how fragile life is. She forces me to live in the present. I look at simple things with complex questions, which is a refreshing way to look at life when everything around us can look so dark.
How long does it take you on average to complete a piece of work, and do you ever do several pieces simultaneously?
It varies depending on the intensity of the project. Sometimes an hour. Sometimes it takes years. I am always working on projects simultaneously. A music video takes me an average of three to four weeks to complete for instance.
Why should people check out your work?
I look at the world through the eyes of an outsider, so I see beauty in unexpected places. I like to challenge what the idea of beauty is - to offer alternatives to the corporate ones, which are very narrow and by some strange incarnation have become part of this countries' culture.
How does your work affect Consciousness, and what are your views on the evolution of consciousness?
I think the planet as a whole is becoming more conscious – conscious of who we are, how we effect the earth, the people around us. I definitely think there is a large power at work, numbing feelings and awareness through media and pharmaceuticals but I believe we are stronger than they are. We must take our power back and realize we are many, they are few. Will is stronger than money.
- 2-27-08
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stick in the sand
"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld
I look at the world through the eyes of an outsider...
trouble
what a gift that which troubles you can be.
also,
i think of a kind-faced man in a digital train station, telling someone that love is a not a feeling, it is a word.
the word "world" is a word, a symbol, as is "outsider". the meaning of words is not absolute, they are symbols.
there are infinite possible ways to divide the All into levels of organization, and it is natural (or at least common) for the mind to organize via division. in a moment where we see something we never considered before, we become conscious of it, in it. we see we are empowered beyond it -- we step outside that limit and our new perspective from there on directly affects that system of awareness.
in this context, and drawing on the rest of her words, i can consider that she may imaginatively step beyond a perceptual limit, and then look at that system she exited from outside its limit. her term "world" is like ... in a past tense.
thus it could also be dismissed as a syntax error!
the end.
"...through the eyes of an outsider..."
Yes, it is possible to perceive oneself as an outsider, the question becomes, "Outside what?" That I do not know, hence, one reason I am an outsider.
All I believe is that I am outside something, and inside another Something.
The beauty I see is in our struggle to be a part of something we do not know, and often, resist. It seems as though many of us are trying to connect to an Ultimate Truth, yet, we already are connected. (A sadistic sense of beauty, to be sure, but with Loving Compassion for all of us in the struggle...)
Peace,
Samwoman
Truth does not always prevail, therefore, we must keep telling it, as we believe it.