2006
By Sherri Baierl
Medium: Mixed (ink, collage, foam core)
Notes: Independent showing at UWGB at the student gallery, given to GBCC in 2007 where it has been since. Voice became a concept to me as I explored art and outsider art. When I returned to school to get an Art Teacher’s license I became aware of this subtle theme coursing through “stuff”.
Even people with little or no awareness of why they were creating something, when asked, would say these revolutionary things ... they’d just spew them out. Unique ideas about life and culture, society and the way things "should" be.
I realized that we are all given a voice. That might be writing, music, art, business, math, it may be loud or have no sound at all but it is something we are intended to communicate through our life. All of these are similar in that they can express love and worship God but all are unique the person. Even if you and I have the same gift of creating art you and I will not say the same things through that art.
Therefore, I came to the conclusion that it is critical that we all express our voice, whatever that is. No one is going to do it for you and no one can fill your place.
