Truths that hit "the bosom" (synonym for home)

So, as I sit in this cold gallery pondering how to translate yet another artist statement, I started thinking about how and why it is that we decide to express art through words? Also why not just words, but fancy words that use a lexicon unfamiliar to the greater populace? Why is it that artists feel a certain need to use big words that they obviously have chosen through an on-line thesaurus or dictionary?

Example: The feline aspects in the human psyche, have adapted over the years to form a world where: I follow the intrinsic nuance of captivating transmogrified communication, to form an image I relate to.

Translation = I paint my cat and I do it often; I like cats, but they scare me.

This is not to say I am innocent. I too have a tendency to overwrite and explain my work, in particular my artist statement. In fact, I am re-writing it at the moment and having a hard time remembering, what it was I was thinking about the last time I made a go of it. I think art in general tends to be taken too seriously and overworked in words, to the point where no one, but the artist and possibly the critic who wrote about the work, can comprehend the magnitude of the ideas behind the aforementioned cat painting. I also have a slight pet hate with the word utilize, why can't people just say use? Truly, utilize will not make you sound smarter, it will only make you sound like a snobby twat.

However, I digress, yes I do. I went to get a coffee and looked for an artist’s home phone number, so that a critic could call them to discuss their work, before making up their own opinion on the work he has only just viewed.

So words, meanings and the forever dreaded artist statement. It is a given, that if you ever wish to apply for an exhibition or an arts opportunity you must write about you and your work. The odd thing is, that the chances of actually getting the opportunity you have just applied for, grows exponentially depending on how many snobby art words you have used, not utilized. This, I have a problem with mainly because it excludes artists who do not wish to make their work sound like a freak show. Instead of a bearded lady, one finds a beard that not only proves the existence of god, but implies a postmodernist view on evolution. Perhaps the artist said that I cut off my beard the same way I peel an apple, maybe that should have been good enough and the reader, viewer, arts application reader, could make up their own mind by using some of their own creative vision to fill in the blanks.

So maybe this is the point I have been trying to get to. My issue is not with words, I love words. My issue is with the whoring of words to explain why your metaphorical legs were open for business when you decided to create a new piece of work. Why can't we act as we do with sex, that creating art is a natural process - something to enjoy and something best left unexplained to strangers with fancy words.

Then again what do I know, my artist statements has had the words, interdisciplinary, controlled spontaneity and meditative process in it for years.