SHOUTOUT LA
Meet Chris Sheridan | Visual artist
“We had the good fortune of connecting with Chris Sheridan and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Chris, have you ever found yourself in a spot where you had to decide whether to give up or keep going? How did you make the choice?
A sunset isn’t simply light of day, and then dark of night. There is the slow gradation from gleaming light, to the waning low light on the horizon casting endlessly long shadows, then the glow of golden hour, followed by the haunting mystique of the blue hour, the eye trickery of the nearly dark, and if you’ve sat long enough to truly enjoy all of the movements, the real darkness. The nuance between “keep going or give up” is much the same.
As an artist it’s imperative to have the drive to keep pushing yourself, always striving to get better, to have the resolve to see your art through, the clarity to know when a piece is done, the control to not over-work your art rendering it without any clear focal point, and the wisdom to know when a piece has run its course, and is more beneficial to your growth as a lesson learned, rather than a finished work of art…”