Madeline Fan

Works of Art

Tape Drawings, Paintings, Ink Drawings, Watercolors

Breakthrough...

I’ve been trying to solve a particular exhibition problem. Somehow, every time I have an idea, I seem to need to reinvent the wheel. In case, you haven’t noticed, I have a hard time following a tried and true form. I have an overabundance of confidence that I can do better. I can’t help it. I continue to cause trouble for myself with untallied, unexamined, and expansive examples of failures and some successes!

On this particular exhibition issue, I think I finally figured it out. It’s now a matter of doing the work and making it come to real life. I just checked in with an artist friend for feedback. She said something like, “It works. It’s smahtah,” so I said, “Right? It’s not so What’s a mattah!” So here’s to problems and their solutions!

I remain aspirational that I can learn to ‘Work smahtah and not so What’s a mattah?’!

I’m prompted to add a description, but I think this speaks for itself.

my starter ink today