Sorry it's been so long since I last posted... almost a full month.
I've been really really swamped, so this is probably going to be a really long post.
Anyways, I'm no longer a complete freshman at MICA. I've sucessfully completed my first semester, with a GPA of 3.4 which puts me on the Dean's List! YAYYYYY
My finals were basically comprised of: a creation of totally brand new pieces, interviews, self evaluations, and no sleep. One would think that with all the time I put into my finals I would have documentation of them right? Wrong. I only have documentation of my drawing final, which I find really strange.
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| MY Drawing Final!!! |
My Drawing final was to use four sheets of large paper and create a piece based on "Changes." I chose to do changes in myself, using two extremes. How I was freshman year of high school and freshman year of college. These two self portraits were supposed to reflect a short summary of who I was at those times. (High school on the left, college on the right) The hands represented my main activities of each of these periods, High school being stage crew, and college is without a doubt art. the third pair I included was more a normal pose which I tend to rest my hands when thinking. The next part of the drawing is the multiple whit oil pastel gestures of myself in my various "art poses" or how I tend to stand when I'm working. And coming from the center weave is a line of red string that ends with a dangling figure, a representation of myself, completely lost and at the mercy of whatever comes. (normally a waft of air that makes him sway) There are also words scribbled onto two sides, the left has the message "work" repeated over and over because I used to be a complete work-aholic (I might still be) and the right has the word "crazy" repeated because I am probably going to drive myself crazy one way or another. And that is a really humbling/scary thought.
Here are some close ups on it. So you can see details!
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| Top half, sorry that it's so yellow comparatively, That's just how the studio lights work. Always. |
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| Bottom half, you can see the relation between the figure and the paper more clearly, as well as the random stitching I have holding tow of the large sheets together. Also, you can look at the hands. |
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| my little dangler. I think he's the most rad part of the piece, even though it's probably the most unrelated part. I just wanted to have him dangle! |
BESIDES FINALS.
I am home for winter break!!!! While that is normally a good thing, for me it isn't. I have so much emotional stuff to deal with at home that I'm not really able to cope with, which I force myself to try and ignore. It's really a bad system, and partially why I am going crazy. However, I have been trying to think about those drak, dark thoughts which keep me up at night shivering and dying inside to myself. IF you actually are reading this, then congrats you know a part of me you didn't know before~!
Aside from that, is the main holiday of the season! HANUKKAH!!!! lol jk, I'm suppossed to be Jewish, but in all reality, I could care less. However, we do get to meet our friends from around the country who come visit in the spirit of the other great(ish) holiday, Christmas. (AH THAT'S TODAY!) and in that spirit, I accepted a comission from a family friend that had recently started playing...Dungeons and Dragons.
Here is her half elf/half human ninja, Lathraea.
I had fun with this, even though I feel like a complete lame ass for doing it... even more so because I knew what she was talking about when she was describing how she plays. As an often watcher of MICA'a Guild, I know most of the part of D&D, and I guess I finally should get around to joining a game... or should I keep my dignity intact and leave?
AHH NAAAAHHHHHH those kids are awesome, and I love Warhammer 40k, I'm a bigger nerd than some RP-ers.
Well, that's it for now, I'll upload some figure drawings and other fun works of mine later. At least I finally have the time!
till next time~!
~Ben
