4.28.08

Last Class WooHoooooo!!!!! Sorry Malena, but I love summer. I am feeling really behind on everything at this point in the semester and I am realllllly stressed out. I was up all night changing my mind on things that I wanted to do for this project that was due at 2...bad, i know. But I figured it out and worked most of the night. I didn't even get to present...oh the irony, but it was ok really. I hope I scored some brownie points however, haha. See everyone for finals!!!!

4.21.08

We were starting presentations today for our site-specific pieces. Haha, half of the class didn't show up. It is afterall, crunch time and everyone (myself included) is incredibly busy and just didn't get around to finish it. We made tallies on the board. :) The people that did go really stepped it up on this one I think. Ray always makes me wanna hide...she does such a good job on everything.

4.21.08

Wow, now these were photos that a student doesn't expect to walk in and see on the screen. But they were funny. I am not the most timid person and sexuality humors me instead of making me uncomfortable. As a photographer, I tend to look at all the elements of the photo instead of just the content and I found them quite lovely. Controversial type photos such as these are really my favorite. I think that the human body (in all of its different composures) to be a beautiful thing. Its such a shame the way that the body is viewed in our society these days... everyone is too fat, too thin, too this and too that, it is sickening...However so easy to fall into this, I have....but only about myself, sad.

4.16.08

Oh, Barbara....Interesting little lady. Very accomplished, but I wouldn't have gathered that upon meeting her. Its a relief to see and artist who can make it without the work being super neat and precise...like an academic style of painting. I like all of her tiny little drawings, very witty. Also very tedious...I would have trouble painting so small and in such bulk. I love it when you can sneak adult humor into childlike scenarios. I really need to remember to subscribe to her list serve...maybe I can find an internship or something.

4.9.08

Go Will....it is so encouraging to a student artist like myself to be able to go out in the surrounding community and see others who are not much different than myself in goals, circumstances, and age to be even somewhat accomplished. I thought his paintings were great and I loved that they were all in a similar style. That is one problem with my own work...I don't have anything that I could put into a collection because everything seems to kind of be all over the place. Coming from a really artistic atmosphere (asheville) to charlotte is kind of a downer for art. He kind of got my hopes up a little more and hopefully I will gain the inspiration to continue practicing when I graduate, even if I am not working in it.

4.14.08

Andy Goldsworthy!! His works are just so beautiful...I'd love to meet this guy and just have a conversation, I bet he has so many brilliant things to say. I love works in nature and I wish that I could venture more into that area. They are simple, natural, and oddly balanced with the surroundings. Unlike him, he discussed Christo and Jeanne Claude. With the umbrellas and everything else, I don't think I could do something so monumetal in size. It is really amazing how these things can be accomplished, especially in public spaces. This may be really silly but I think I would either worry that noone would notice it or that it would interrupt the daily lives of people. Guess I won't be doing any of those cool fabric pieces.

4.7.08

I presented today. I feel like I've had this project over my head for weeks so it was a real relief to get rid of it. I am surprised that the class always seems to find some sort of positive in everyone elses work...its really encouraging. Even when Im embarassed to present something, afterwards i dont feel quite so bad about it. I had trouble with this and it always seems that my work is just so crafty, its annoying. Im not quite sure that im capable of installations and things of that sort, or at least not yet in my artistic endeavors. I dont think that I did the best job ever but now I dont have to think about it anymore, yay.