Sincerity in Practice: Benji Nate and Stephanie Pierce
I have had a lot of time to think lately due to some health issues and a lengthy recovery from a broken ankle, so truly, that’s all I’ve been able to do. With the exception of some sketching in my sketchbook, I haven’t had the energy or capacity to make art, and, to my surprise, it’s been a good thing. Somehow during the last two years I’ve become really hyper focused on things that don’t matter that much to me, thinking about what I “should” be doing and what my work ought to look like in order to be considered professional—all of these spiraling kinds of thoughts about what I’m doing without thinking about why I’m doing it. I’ve been stuck in an expectation of what my art should look like while simultaneously being bored by it. During this slow recovery, I've been thinking of artists I’ve had the very good fortune of meeting and getting to hang out with. Two who I greatly, greatly admire are Benji Nate and Stephanie Pierce . Their work is very different from each other’s and f...
