wednesday, february 13, 2008
20 degrees and sunny
it's nice to be socializing again. i haven't been to work in two weeks and have become quite the hermit. i have also felt like i was 7 again saying, 'i don't Want to go to school!" thank goodness for snow days. however, the weather looks like it will remain in double digits, so it's sooooo long to snow days for now and back to integrating myself into the world.
while i was nesting, i started some new drawings for a fundraiser in our Graduate Gallery.
"Get It While It's Hot!" features graduates, with one foot out the door, that need patrons to help them with relocation fees. As soon-to-be graduating graduates, we only have a few months left before we’re no longer living off our rapidly depleting supply of student loans. So we’ve decided to open our dusty flat files and unpack those obscure boxes perched high on the storage shelves. During this studio clean up we’ve found many works that need new homes because we don’t want to u-haul it with us when we leave. So support Hot graduates, and their Hot work, during this Hot week!
anyway, the drawings, yes the drawings. i have been in the process of scanning and photographing drawings from my first year in the program. they were drawings of little mimi in various gestures done on mylar with just a black ink pen and w white china marker. i've always been found of these earlier drawings and wanted to see how they would look presented on different paper with different media. this is a cropped version of one of them. it's a cleaned up photoshopped image of the original drawing that i printed onto vintage paper and hand colored.
i didn't always feel like i had a voice when i was a child and didn't have control of a lot of things, which i'm sure many kids struggle with. now that i'm considered an adult, i don't do a superb job articulating myself. i also tend to think more abstractly, which makes it even more difficult for me to effectively communicate because i think i come across too vague. during the nesting weeks i had been trying to write down phrases and thoughts that mimi wanted to get off of her chest (i love that i'm working 3rd person into my blog now...soon it will only be 3rd person. lol.). narcissism, narcissism, narcissism. yes, i know, but it's inherent to being an artist so get over it. i'm thinking mimi's going to make a comeback and become my thesis work. who do i know best? mimi of course. i think her concerns will be full of humor, humility, absurdity, and of course loneliness and some apathy.
hmmmm, incorporating text into my work, that could be dangerous coming from the verbally challenged one....but we'll see we it goes.
Comments:
02/24/2008 - debdeb
mimimimimimimimimimimimimimemimimemimemememememememememememe.
ain't she sweet!
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