wow, it’s been busy. didn’t think i’d write that so soon.
the results are out too. i’m now quite happy with the result i achieved. it was apparent to me that unless you’ve been through a degree yourself, the meaning of 2-1 is somewhat vague. as i described it to one friend, it means i’m not a geek, which he was well pleased with.
i’ve had to consider my position on whether i pay to exhibit or not. it was certainly something i had to go through, if only to realise that actually spending a little money to begin with is what one has to do. the opportunity to exhibit, once additional info was released, like when the exhibition was planned for, i did come round to realising that it might be a good idea to spend that money. as a result i’ll be exhibiting in a show in late august. additional info nearer the time.
i’m volunteering now too. it’s a project in leicester. it fits into many categories of good things. i’ll be getting some invigilation experience, being a guide for tours and photographing members of the public for the exhibition archive. on friday last week one of my first jobs was to check over some mannequins and repair their paint. i was fine until i started loading the heads onto the bodies. i got quite freaked out when i realised i was putting male looking heads onto female torsos. great thing is i’ve been able to practice newly learnt photoshop skills on some images of the mannequins.
at the weekend i visited some friends working at emerge at shipley park. derbyshire youth services were represented there. i had a very interesting chat with several youth service workers, it has opened my eyes to possibilities with them.
i am definitely in a what’s possible, what’s out there phase. i will have to exercise some editing skills to make sure i pursue the routes that interest me the most.
as an aside, i’m off to liverpool this weekend to hopefully exchange some of my time for money.
i’ve been considering the invitation to send in proposals for images. i feel it’s about time i had a go at turning my thoughts into written text. i still have nothing to loose by having a go.
the fourth plinth project went live today. sitting at home watching the live stream i feel very small and insignificant. i look forward to how the sitting watching the stream experience pans out.
in other news. a friend from the degree course has won a university bursary for studio rent. he doesn’t have the couple of hundred pound needed for admin costs to get the bursary.
i’ve been contacted by a gallery in nottingham, they’d like to know if i am interested in being in an emerging artist show. it’ll cost me 60 pounds and the show will be on for a week. i’m a professional artist, should i be paying for my work to be shown? i think not, it’s like paying for an entry on my cv.
i think, i am faced with a long hard struggle, as i am not good at making things to be immediately liked. i’ll test my theory by attempting a proposal to a local hospital for images to go on a wall somewhere in the hospital.
getting briefly back to the plinth, at lunchtime on radio 4 was the chap from the ica. he was looking forward to when the first person got naked on the plinth. i was a bit dismayed at this.
18.21, a person in the crowd asks the man on the plinth “how is it art?” is this a question facing all undergraduate fine art students come september? certainly the man on the plinth was stumped to answer the question. a duchampian response of ‘it’s art coz i say it is’ mite have be good. i don’t understand why art gets such a hard time, certainly a friend of mine who works not in the arts sector has the 70’s bricks very much engrained in her mind as a nonsense piece of work and all art is nonsense if it’s not a painting or a sculpture. are we all living at a time where art needs some support and help? i think so as i would like to be able to be myself and make art that has good reason to exist and not worry where the money for the bills or food comes from, why is that such a difficult concept? maybe i should ask an ecomonist that question to get their take on it, maybe then i’ll be a little more informed.
i’ve not been well. the rigours of the degree show and subsequent nursing and end of adrenaline fix had left me open to a cold and flu. at one point i was worried about swine flu, until a friend pointed out that if i had any type of flu i wouldn’t be out of bed.
i find myself tidying up hard discs. collating alphabetically and by size to cram onto dvd discs intended for data storage. until i’ve done this task anything more seems untidy. not only does it free up important external disc space as i see it as an archiving process too. lots of pictures and words collected over nearly a year. a very small fraction has seen the light of day, maybe one day i’ll come back to this collection to be used for another thread of work.
i’m also pleased at my endeavours in the kitchen. i’ve fitted new taps onto the kitchen sink, the dripping mess was becoming unsightly, that’s now been thwarted and at last i can fill a kettle without worrying about the ongoing dampness.
i’ve also trimed head hair, too long and unsightly in my head, so trimmings necessary.
yes, before something new can begin, a neat conclusion of what went before is needed, i don’t like to move on without first cleaning up.
have a good weekend. x
