Die Künstlerin, die alle Regeln bricht

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Ihre Kunstwerke sind bunt und unkonventionell, denn Sue lässt sich in kein Schema pressen.

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00:00If you think you can't make art, you can.

00:10There is no rule. There are no rules.

00:20I'm an artist and day and night I live it, I eat it, I sleep it, I dream it.

00:25I am an artist. A crazy one, but that's what I am.

00:30I'm Sue Kreitzman, I'm 81 1⁄2 years old, getting older every minute.

00:54I was always told that I was very bad at art.

01:00I used to be a cookbook author, wrote 27 cookbooks, cooked on television,

01:05traveled all over the world cooking for people, you know, in cooking theaters.

01:09But then at 58 I was sitting at a table, correcting the proofs of my 27th cookbook.

01:16I picked up a marker and my hand drew a mermaid on a piece of paper.

01:20It was like this kind of folk art mermaid with a fish as a hat and snakes.

01:24And I never did such a thing in my life.

01:27From that moment on, I was a different person.

01:31I was an artist.

01:32And I became obsessed with drawing.

01:34Absolutely obsessed.

01:36Never wrote another cookbook.

01:38How would you describe your art?

01:52How do I describe my art?

01:54I guess I'm what's called an outsider artist.

01:56And that means working way outside the margins of the regular art world which is fine with me.

02:02And because I had my big career, I'm not interested in selling.

02:06I'm making my art for myself.

02:08And when other people like it, I'm delighted.

02:17My art is very shamanistic.

02:20In many ways it's very childish.

02:22It's very, very, very colorful.

02:25I'm an assemblage artist.

02:27I assemble.

02:28I love junk.

02:29That's why every week I go to the flea market.

02:31Oh my god, I love junk.

02:32And I love taking detritus.

02:34It's almost like being an archaeologist.

02:36And my art is about the female landscape.

02:38It's always about women.

02:44This is where I work.

02:46It's a great big shed.

02:47It's full of my materials.

02:49And right now I'm working on several of my found object sculptures.

02:54They're essentially anthropomorphic memory jugs.

02:57And always have a female theme.

03:00And they tell stories.

03:01They tell stories about femininity and also my personal mythology.

03:05And this is going to be about the goddess phone.

03:09And here is the goddess phone.

03:12You dial any goddess you want.

03:15And the goddess will answer.

03:20Does my art have a mission?

03:23You know, if I'm an outsider artist, I'm doing it for the sheer visceral joy of doing it.

03:28Without love in your heart.

03:30Without my own.

03:32Without love by your side.

03:34Without my own.

03:36When you're an outsider artist like me, and many people I know, the art does not come from your head.

03:42There's no planning.

03:43It doesn't come from the heart.

03:45It comes from the gut.

03:46And then suddenly it just is.

03:48It almost makes it so.

03:49Some people walk through this light.

03:52Not on their feet but on their face.

03:57When I first burst into art, I didn't tell most of my friends.

04:01And at that time, I didn't have that weird and colorful artistic group of friends that I have now.

04:06I had fairly, I don't want to say ordinary because they were nice people.

04:10But damn it, they were fairly ordinary.

04:12And I didn't even tell them.

04:14My family, yes, they were gobsmacked.

04:18You know, what happened to mother?

04:20My family were very supportive.

04:22And my husband thinks something else.

04:23He said, this is better than Picasso.

04:25I said, well honey, I don't know if we'd go that far.

04:28Thank you.

04:29Tell me what you do.

04:31Tell me what you do.

04:34And I'm living a dream right now.

04:36I really am because all my friends are artists.

04:38We believe in color.

04:39Most of us are outsider artists.

04:41So our work is wild and bold and often very crazy.

04:45And yes, it's a dream come true.

04:48Without love in your heart.

04:50Without love by your side.

04:54Without love playing part.

04:58Tell me what you do.

05:01Tell me what you do.

05:03Tell me what you do.

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