Tori Smith - 2023

Artist's Statement

Throughout the semester, I took class notes like most students. However, I also took notes on anything that was interesting to me artistically, as a songwriter. If something was said in the lecture or by a classmate that I thought was poetic or poignant in any way, I would write it down. For my final project, I wrote a song and referenced many phrases and words from the notes I took. I chose the title “Creature of Comfort” and referenced the theme that was common in lectures throughout the semester. The idea that “this is not a story of villains, but a story of systems”. I turned the idea that we are all “Creatures of Comfort” as the “enemy” or “villain” humanity might need to finally take action. I enjoyed playing with different meanings with the words and phrases we’ve used to tell the story of the anthropocene.

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