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Late 90's -> early 2k's we had a flurry of sites just for the hell of it. I loved that period of the web (just look at my site). I was showing in a few galleries simultaneiously throughout those years. All of them wanted an artist's statement. I find them to be absolute bullshit. They're either written to show you how the artist envisions an ideal version of themself; or they're what the artist thinks you would want to hear. Do any of us have an exact version of "me"? Go from Tuesday to Saturday and that statement will be different. Telling the truth about yourself is, at best, trying to shoot a moving target while swinging on a rope. There was a site: the artwank generator. It was glorious, I used it every chance I had. It asked for a bit of data then at the end, a pulldown for how many paragraphs you wanted. Click generate, poof, the most hyperbolic 3rd year art school artwank you could ever want. The galleries loved them. All of them knew what I was doing too. This is a shadow of that site, but at least someone is still out there artwanking for the greater good. https://www.artybollocks.com/generator.html