“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” –JFK, Amherst College Address (Oct 26, 1963)

Friday, April 22, 2011

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Report · 9:43pm
haha, i'm excited for it
but my parents wont like it
Report · 9:43pm
yeah well
...that's how it is
Report · 9:44pm
haha yeah, i told my mom last fall i was thinking about getting a tattoo and she didn't even look at me and she teared up a little bit and said i should do that to my body
so i'm a little nervous
Report · 9:45pm
*should do that
?
i think you mean *shouldn't
Report · 9:45pm
haha yes.
good catch
Report · 9:46pm
yeah but how long can we feel guilty for what our parents do and don't believe
Report · 9:47pm
well said
Report · 9:48pm
Lars and I have been talking about that lately
Report · 9:48pm
haha, bad influence?
ha
Report · 9:48pm
no
ha
we have been talking about it
he hasn't been preaching about it
Report · 9:49pm
oh ha ok
Report · 9:51pm
we talked about family and how the bonds between blood take too much of a precedent over how we make our decisions and live our lives
Report · 9:51pm
i've never thought about that
but that makes complete sense to me
Report · 9:53pm
he thinks that we follow this dynamic because that's how it's been for centuries but in all actuality we owe our families nothing because we were born into these bonds
Report · 9:54pm
hmmm, idk if i agree with owing our families nothing
but i get what he's sayin
Report · 9:54pm
mmmm
it's all relative
Report · 9:55pm
right
Report · 9:55pm
I think that we owe our families something
but not our free will
Report · 9:55pm
yeah
i agree with that
Report · 9:56pm
If we owed our families that than everyone would always be a product of how they were raised
Report · 9:56pm
definitely
i hear THAT
Report · 9:57pm
well, so where does it end?
Report · 9:57pm
megan you know i don't know the answer to that
Report · 9:57pm
neither do I
that's the beauty of it
Report · 9:58pm
haha
i se
see*
Report · 10:00pm
the beauty is in the discovery of the question and the knowledge that no matter how many times you repeatedly answer it there are always more questions and more explorations to make
Report · 10:01pm
and how questions like that kind of just make you sit down and go blank
Report · 10:03pm
not actually blank but like only think about that question trying to come up with an answer
Report · 10:05pm
yes sir
I'm an addict
Report · 10:07pm
intervention?
Report · 10:07pm
ahhhh nothing can stop it
and I would never ask for such a blissful existence

Monday, April 18, 2011

Finding a mind is easier than finding a brain.

This last week was pretty weird and that is one of the reasons why this post is so darn late. I'm sorry to all of you that had to do two comments when I didn't have my post up. So just to start off I want to take a look at my drawing/picture because this is what I believe to be one out of only two drawings that I produced last week. I like drawing the hands because I don't get so stressed out about the proportions and how they move etc. This picture however could have been a great deal better because the lines are really thick when they shouldn't be and the contour lines really don't add up as well as they should but I am working on both of those things. This week we worked on our manikins and on hand drawings, and I think that thus far working on hands is a lot more enjoyable for me. Not only because I am fascinated with hands but also because of the way that we have been able to work and how we can do the manikin hands or the model's hand or the clay. It's a bummer though that I feel as if I'm starting to improve and now we are really getting down to the last couple weeks of class. I'm so nervous to be out of school because I really do think that I'm going to lose a lot of the hard earned progress and that scares me. I suppose that we will see whether or not that is true when we all show up next year. I wish I could be in school all year round but unfortunately I don't have enough money to do so. I hope that all of you have been having a wonderful week and that I see you all in class on Wednesday before we get a little bit of a break.