I also find that writing about other people’s artw...
I also find that writing about other people’s artwork enhances my own experience of it. However, artist statements sometimes get in the way. Extremely thorough expositions leave no crack through which the viewer can enter the work on their own terms. I also think they engage the chattering, “thinking” part of the brain, distracting us from a deeper response. After all, isn’t the experience of both making and viewing art richest at that deep, nonverbal level?