Determining Cohesiveness

So I have to come up with an artist statement for my professional practices class, in which I'm supposed to talk about a collective body of work. Sometimes the art world is a little bizzar. There is a strong tendancy to want things to look extremely uniformed. Or at least that's the notion that I'm getting.

Well I have a wide range of interests. And I like for my ideas to drive the piece. And apparently that ends up to the comment,"Oh I never would have thought that all three of these pieces came from the same artist."

Well a great deal of graduate programs want a collective cohesive body of work....and with comments like that I wonder, is my work choesive?

Granted all three of these pieces were in different series. But still the comments have been you paint so differently than you draw.

And I agree in general. Though being well aware that I did infact create all of these things set before them it is a bit harder for me to be sympathetic to this idea.

But then I look at each individual series and I wonder, should I have tried to limit myself a bit more? I have a fear series going, and in reality each fear could have been a series. I started out broad, so maybe I should narrow?

I have this strong desire to do a creation myth series and have started with that, on the end of Adam and Eve, since I'm closest to that story. Which is a more narrow approach, but then I look at what I have so far for that series, and it does not really scream out "cohesive thought" to me either.

I have my passive aggressive series, which I should probably title something else, since after doing research I have realized that my presupposition of what passive aggressiveness is, is not all that accurate.

I have started a found object art series for scuplture, due to lack of funds, and well all I have right now is one of my old sculptures wrapped in red yarn....and yes it is that bizarr and absurd.

I did that room based off my short story 32 canvases, definetly most cohesive even though its not finished.....

I want to take as many pictures as I can of all of my stuff that I've done, that's worth its salt and try and figure out what the hell it is I'm trying to say with my art.

I'm sure that there is an underlying connection, if nothing else the human figure, because I do love the human figure. And use it in almost everything that I have mentioned above.


The other thing that I have decided to do is to try and revist all the series I have previously...so far the ideas that I like the most are based around one from my fear series, The fear of the Monster Within.

I just don't want to hear the comment anymore, "Oh you're still a student? Well then its okay that you're all over the place." Its not the exact words that people say, but that's what they mean.