In my time at WOU, I've worked with some amazing artists and professors. I found out at the end of this school year that one of my biggest academic influences who has become a good friend would be leaving WOU and moving to Texas. While I will miss her tutelage and accessibility, her friendship will endure. I completely support the decision, but I feel strongly that she will be sorely missed at the art department. That being said, she issued a challenge, and I'm going to make sure she holds up to her end of things as well. We made a bet that we would both spend at least two hours a day in our studios, five days a week. I know that won't be hard for her, and at least during the summer for me it should be okay. So far, in the two days since, I've done my part. Now it's time to see how she's doing. Perhaps, as a showing of good faith, not that I would ever think she would cheat, she'll send me a couple of photos that I can post here as well. The three works I've done since graduating should be viewed as works in progress. I'm not entirely sure where they'll be going yet, but I think there are some interesting things starting to happen between the materials and composition. I feel like I'm starting to play with a dialogue of art vs. craft, which is really wide open in terms of direction. It's not surprising given my propensity for looking for dualities in my work like control and chaos, or drawing vs. painting, or truth and memory. I think any time there are contrasting ideas or polarity of any kind in a work it creates a richness to the experience of it, not only for viewing it but for myself as I work. I want to be interested in what I'm doing, so theorizing and conceptualizing are extremely important to my intellectual involvement. Okay Rachel, the ball is in your court. | |
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Rachel
7/8/2015 01:44:58 pm
It's on Eric!
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