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.