Artist Statement (draft, nevermind)

DY Artist Statement

My art explores the intersection of video and poetry. I use video as means of self-expression and a tool for learning and discovering the world around me. I craft visual poetical images with the help of elaborate editing technique, sound design, accentuated color palette and contrast.

I have always loved poetry and am myself a poet. My immigration to a foreign country deprived me of an ability to clearly express myself with the means of language and poetry: few people can master foreign language as well as native. I started to look for other means of expression and found them in video and sound design. While studying at Hunter College, NYC, I was a student of such great professors and filmmakers as Kelly Anderson, Tami Gold, and Michael Gitlin. I started as a documentary filmmaker and made a short about Doctors Without Borders, The Road Taken (2006), but later switched to experimental video (The Pool of Fire (2008), Marina(2009)). Experimenting with video and editing gave me a new means for self-expression and provided with better understanding of people and reality. My documentaries project fascination with noble goals and great personalities like the doctors who work overseas in areas of war and natural disaster and help communities in need, while my experimental videos are more introverted and meditative and explore the relations between personality and the outside world.

For the current collaborative project, we have teamed up with independent artist and New Yorker Armand A.Ruhlman. This joint project, Video Poetry in New York, is a series of video-poems made in New York and expressing ‘New-York state of mind’. It encompasses the beauty of New York parks and sea beaches, the energy of the protestors on Wall Street, which is a great part of today’s New York, the emotional struggle of immigrants, and my personal contemplations.

References
Dariya Yalova’s video channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/yalovad
Armand A. Ruhlman’s video channel - http://vimeo.com/user3241260/videos
Video Poetry in New York – blog or video channel on vimeo


How to Write an Artist Statement
http://www.mollygordon.com/resources/marketingresources/artstatemt/
http://www.artbusiness.com/artstate.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_statement
http://www.artstudy.org/art-and-design-careers/sample-artist-statement.php
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use
http://icarusfilms.com/new2006/angr4.html


Filmmaker Statement
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lioness/statement.html
http://www.madeinindiamovie.com/the-filmmakers.html