Zoe and Josef Frank

Last week I looked at the way textile artists write artist statements, and in my research I found this artist named Josef Frank. His work is remarkably similar to my own. I've posted a picture of it below, and although it's far more polished than my own work, it still has the same effect. Creating this bizarre world of interesting plants. All of his work has a subject, he organized them by country. So he has a pattern for France and a pattern for Jamaica and a pattern for the US (it's pretty ugly).

I can't decide how I feel about this. You know when you are doing something that you feel is super awesome an novel but then you find someone else doing the exact same things (yea yea, everything repeats). But how do you react? Do you do exactly what you had planned or do you change your methodology? I'm thinking that I will attempt to emphasize the hand drawn nature of my work to contrast with the printed quality of his. I will print on matt paper potentially? Not use explicitly bright colors (even though I absolutely love his brightly colored works)? Maybe I just won't change anything.