Am I Protean?

9:54 AM 2/2/2016

As an artist, am I protean?
Yes!
Iowa grad faculty had a hard time with this because I kept shifting.  They considered this a negative.  Not enuff evidence to evaluate work correctly(?).  Whaaaaaa?
YesBut:  I like to explore and experiment.  Maybe a better pigeon hole would be “conceptual” artist.  This would be ok if I could express my artistic thoughts via words.  I cannot.  So the confusion continues for the audience as well as for myself.
2016:  I continue to struggle with proteanism in my work.  Art making now confined to digital images (all things digital including my take on “straight” fotografy).  I continue to search for my “center”.  I dance all around this indefinable “center”.  I get a glimpse of it once in awhile.  But never see this “center” with any clarity.  I keep searching.   I keep exploring different media to see if “this” new stuff can bring into the light my “center”.

10:10 AM 2/2/2016} In addition I am very impatient and full of high anxiety.  I feel that most art processes are too slow and can’t keep up with my mind.  I need a medium that can change to match my mind as fast as it changes.  Digital imaging, so far, seems to come as close as I can find, at this time, to achieving this goal.

9:50 AM 2/2/2016
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=protean+definition

pro·te·an
‘prote?n,pro’te?n/
adjective
adjective: protean

tending or able to change frequently or easily.
“it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject”
synonyms:    ever-changing, variable, changeable, mutable, kaleidoscopic, inconstant, inconsistent, unstable, shifting, unsettled, fluctuating, fluid, wavering, vacillating, mercurial, volatile; technicallabile
“the protean nature of mental disorders”
antonyms:    constant, consistent
able to do many different things; versatile.
“Shostakovich was a remarkably protean composer, one at home in a wide range of styles”
synonyms:    versatile, adaptable, flexible, all-around, multifaceted, multitalented, many-sided
“a remarkably protean composer”

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protean
adjective changeable, variable, volatile, versatile, temperamental, ever-changing, mercurial, many-sided, mutable, polymorphous, multiform the protean and complex nature of his work

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English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

all-around
all-round
changeable
fluid
internalization
internalize
kaleidoscopic
many-sided
multifaceted
Multiversant
Proteanly
variable
various
versatile

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