My Project Description for the Wedding Cake House Residency
The fraternal, as opposed to identical twin, of the Artist Statement
After my original train ride was canceled due to a snowstorm, I am sadly, but finally, making my way back to Brooklyn after a magical 10-day residence in the Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI. My time there was crucial to reconnecting with my work and pushing through some final research and revisions for my ceviche and potato essay, as I have affectionately come to call them. True to its spirit, Wedding Cake House provided the time to work on a specific project—and when I applied they required a project description instead of an artist statement.
“What’s the difference????!!!!!!?????” your harried, anxious, artistic mind might be asking, already buckling under the demands of all these MATERIALS that institutions keep asking you to produce. Take a deep breath, it really isn’t that much different from a standard writing statement. I would even go as far as to say it’s a simplified version of it. A project description is self-explanatory: a page that explains what you are working on, why, and what stage you are in the process. Since Wedding Cake House requested a separate bio, I deleted anything in my artist statement that would best live in that form and gave myself the luxury of expanding on my project more.
I am sharing my project description under the same conditions I always do:
Don’t ever tell me if you find a typo, EVER. It clearly wasn’t bad enough for the jury/committee/reader/editor, etc. to reject me and it will only serve to haunt me until my dying days.
Do not plagiarize my silly little sentences. It’s not cool and I’ll know you’ll have done it. Especially if you copy+paste it with the typos I do NOT want brought to my attention.