Judy Dater has been making photographs for more than 40 years, and is considered one of America’s foremost photographers. You can feel something and empathize with it on a very deep level, and you don’t have to put words to it. She created and performed an amazing solo-but to have described her performance as “sad” would have been to diminish what we experienced. She was a woman who had faced unbelievable challenges and who was living with a great deal of sadness. One of the most amazing performances I have ever seen in my life was of a woman-a domestic violence survivor-dancing in a tiny conference room in a domestic violence shelter for other survivors. Giving that to someone else-as a kind of gift through live performance-is the most meaningful aspect of my work.ĭance is a powerful art form for the very reason that it doesn’t need to explain or comment on itself. For me, making work is almost like keeping a journal. Interestingly, the body of my work is like a catalog of the events and thoughts of my life.
That’s incredibly powerful for me-something that really keeps me going.
Later, bringing those materials together into a form-distilling and shaping movement, creating a context, working to something that feels cohesive and complete. At the beginning, developing the basic raw materials for the work is deeply reflective and informative. In my own work, that is true throughout the process. For me, creating art brings things back together. In life, we experience so much fragmentation of thought and feeling. From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being.
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