Thursday Night-Dawn Cerny

Dawn read many encyclopedias on different time periods and eras.  This information was important to her as an artist and it is shown through her work.  She enjoyed humor and wanted to create malleable epic.  Dawn wanted to display "Epic but pitiable comedy with restraint and economy that has a potential to make people brave."  She also wanted strong intimate connections with her audience by displaying her image of war.  For three months she listened people react to her piece and talk about death and experience with war.  Dawn used that information to later go back into the Henry Museum where her piece was displayed to mess with the position of the piece to see if she could depict different feelings.  Dawn then went on to study more about comedy because to her it could potentially be a form of storytelling.  Dawn wanted to make work that could singularly do something.  She also reads often to agonize her own practice.