Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Uh-Oh. Coffee spill! Whoops! Clean up methods.
After watching the inauguration this morning (which was good), I came away with only one question. What the hell happened to poetry? Didn't it used to be cool? Maybe.
Cool.
Inauguration poem.
Not cool.
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
Cool.
Inauguration poem.
Not cool.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Reviewing our fall reviews...
Specifically my fall review. It went well. I think. The discussions centered on where I could take my work next. I think some very worthwhile directions surfaced, but most enlightening-ly? I realized that I was not particularly interested in pursuing the projects. At least in a formal school way.
I spent a large chunk of my time over winter break drawing the first part of a comic book (unfortunately I will still need to spend a good deal of my time coloring it). And as a result of this it dawned on me that the screen based abstracted comic I had shown was trying to make my desire to create a comic fit a fine art context. Which it doesn't really. At least not without taking it away from what I like about the medium. So that one is scratched.
The second project I showed the small environment sculpture. I liked making it, I think it came out okay for a first go. But, I feel like a real time investment would be needed for it to go forward.
I have no problem with investing my time. Though I am wary in this economic climate. But, I know I would rather spend it elsewhere. Somewhere that I find more exciting. And I think the work I was doing this summer, the layered super heros, got put on hold for school. I never really felt like they were done and now I think is the time to make them correctly. And make them three dimensional out of something that will not fall over into a million pieces.
So my big realization from the reviews is that I should have been making other work. Hmm.
Though I have picked up some interesting reading as a result.
Specifically my fall review. It went well. I think. The discussions centered on where I could take my work next. I think some very worthwhile directions surfaced, but most enlightening-ly? I realized that I was not particularly interested in pursuing the projects. At least in a formal school way.
I spent a large chunk of my time over winter break drawing the first part of a comic book (unfortunately I will still need to spend a good deal of my time coloring it). And as a result of this it dawned on me that the screen based abstracted comic I had shown was trying to make my desire to create a comic fit a fine art context. Which it doesn't really. At least not without taking it away from what I like about the medium. So that one is scratched.
The second project I showed the small environment sculpture. I liked making it, I think it came out okay for a first go. But, I feel like a real time investment would be needed for it to go forward.
I have no problem with investing my time. Though I am wary in this economic climate. But, I know I would rather spend it elsewhere. Somewhere that I find more exciting. And I think the work I was doing this summer, the layered super heros, got put on hold for school. I never really felt like they were done and now I think is the time to make them correctly. And make them three dimensional out of something that will not fall over into a million pieces.
So my big realization from the reviews is that I should have been making other work. Hmm.
Though I have picked up some interesting reading as a result.
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