Ingrid Calame

This seems familiar in the sense that her motivation is to document and understand the complicated world around her. Deep inside this is a question we each wrestle with our self. She tries to capture the essence of life and death in the simple images we see and take for granted. Her analytical thought is something I feel I have seen more in writing, although in the video her pictures said much more than she could, as she did struggle to explain herself. It seems as if she uses art as a way to get a grasp on life, something everyone is trying to do.

Who is Ingrid Calame? Well she is many things, on the bottom line she is an artist but above that she is a person, and she is dealing with the questions being a person arouses. Ingrid Calame creates her paintings by first tracing everyday shapes and forms we see such as tire skuff marks on high ways, or graffiti. Then she over lays many traces she had created to make a fusion of the different emotions expressed in each form. The next step in her process is to paint the different shapes so they are just barely recognizable. She plays with color to twist and manipulate the feeling in each shape. Only she knows the real reason she does her art, but as far as she shared her motivation is not only the passion for creating she so obviously has but it is also the have a greater understanding, larger than herself.