Catching Up

I haven't posted to this site in a very long time, over a year. I don't think that there is anyone reading this but my apologies anyway Last time that I wrote here, I was preparing to enter my first year at the Maryland Institute College of Art, going in as a Photography major (technically, as the little checked box told me, "Undecided"). I am now little over a week away from the beginning of my second year at MICA, and in hindsight now (I really do hate looking back, ever) I think it was silly of me to try to emulate the life and dreams of a photographer. I admit that over the course of the past year I have lost all but a small bit of my love of photography, and I see its history stretching foward in a curve that will constantly deflect any effort I make towards its life and timeline. I think too differently from the rest of the medium; I don't have the patience or the desire to fight against both my school's curriculum and my own lack of confidence in my art. I am now officially a Sculpture major at the Institute. I dont have any hope of a job or a career out of it but I feel that at least now I will learn so much more.

Photography experiements

Solarized image created in the darkroom.

I do believe that this- as well as photo montage- is the direction that I want to continue on in in photography.

New painting

A painting that I have been working on slowly over the past few weeks. Right now I am dissatisfied with it, so it will most likely be changed before it is completely finished.

Am working on new stuffed sculptures...
one big shrimp baby monster,
one medium cat- thing.

This is a sculpture I created several months ago, fondly titled "Horse Fetus" but formally an "Untitled" piece. It was created from a pillow, yarn, super sculpey, all of which I sewed together by hand. The piece was created from my desire to give create a wanderer in dreamlands, to make the traveller that one often sees besides oneself in ones personal dreamlands. This specific traveller is a guidepost, but is not fully mature- the start of a series of dreams, perhaps.

My favorite photomontage that I created in the darkroom... this is old, from about 4 or 5 months ago. Titled "The Newest Threat".

Pen and ink.