Stephanie Stambaugh

About me:

Pablo Picasso said, "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." When I was in high school Picasso caught me in his web. Years later when I was in Barcelona, I felt connected to Picasso and his work, more so there than I did when I was in Antibes or in Paris. Picasso became my alter ego, he became like a surrogate, plastic father to me after my father died years ago. (The two look very similiar actually.) Oddly, Picasso was dead too, but as my father's words and painting had ceased, Picasso's were, are, always there to continue to discover and to experience. I suppose to know me you would have to understand why Picasso, even in his most sexist, outlandish attitudes and mad genius, was magnetic and mysterious and will always be my favorite artist.