You know, I love ceramics. I like feeling clay as something that is made as the same stuff as me, and then making something out of it. I never really bought into the whole 'life cycle, earth cycle' notion, though I know fully well it exists. I prefer what my art history teacher told me. Things come in waves. With ceramics, I do however feel the cycle of earth to earth and then back into other. It's pleasing, fulfilling, and maybe what art is meant to be. I don't know much about art yet so I can't say. I don't really feel the same with sculpture. There are so many materials that it is impossible to grasp all of them. Is it wrong, then, that I stick with my sculpture major as opposed to switching to ceramics? But what a ridiculous thing! to be a ceramacist only; all men think of is teapots and tea parties. I prefer my tea parties at the harbor of Boston and my art in a field rather than a glass case. Maybe I could join the movement and hail along as "ceramics as equal!", which I believe they are. But I think it's silly to rub in the point when most people hardly move past the first ten percent of artistic knowledge anyway.

"This is This"

Stoneware, 2009-2010

New Sculpture

Stoneware, Black Glaze

approx. 13x7 in.

Very New, very exciting.

LOVE IT.

AH 200 - Renaissance Through 1855
Lecture
Mo 4:00PM - 6:45PM
Ellen Cutler
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

CE 324 - Cast Ceramics
Th 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Ryan Kelly
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

DR 252 - Life Drawing
We 8:30AM - 2:00PM
M 140: Drawing Studio
Dan Dudrow
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

IHST 281-IH2 - Psychohistory & Autobiography
Tu 1:00PM - 3:45PM
M 222: Seminar Room
Robert Merrill
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

L 269-IH1 - Love in the Western World
Tu 9:00AM - 11:45AM
B 480: Classroom
Robert Merrill
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

VID 200 - Video I
Mo 9:00AM - 3:00PM
BR 412: Video Lab
Jane Cottis
01/19/2010 - 05/07/2010

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.