Thinking about empathy and theater...
So I've been contemplating this award application that I have to turn in soon. I was up for it last year and received an honorable mention so I get to apply again. And I was looking through my writing from last year and this amazing thing hit me: I want to rewrite my artist statement. This might not sound like a big deal to everyone, but it is to me. My artist statement, while it's had revisions, deletions, and additions in the past, has been basically the same since I wrote it in late 2006. And I have believed whole heartedly in it every time I've turned it in for an application. But here I am, suddenly, in 2013, wanting to chuck most of it and rewrite! This is both exciting and frightening, as the last one helped me receive lots of awards and fellowships. It was well written. I remember being incredibly inspired the day I did the first draft and I have felt so good about it. But more importantly to the writing, what this means is, something changed for me this yea