2003-09-16 - 10:58 pm
Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to make huge wearable wings from handmade paper. I'm excited about the idea and completely up for the challenge in constructing the figures, especially because it seems so possible and impossible all at the same time. My weaving instructor made a valid point about learning processes that most artists go through in comparison to what's taught in a normal school setting: normally it's taught "cause and effect" but artists often think "effect and cause". It was like she had plucked my entire thought process and summed it up in two words—"effect and cause". Amazing.
I've been having a great few days and I know that it will keep up for the rest of the week. I'm excited about creating and ambitious to keep at it. With the exception of my English homework that continues to stare at me from my bed, I'm completely head over heels in love with school. I spent eight hours straight in the studio working on the loom, yesterday I had spent about three and a half doing the same thing. Aside from the occasional frustration with intense drawing sessions which leave me begging to go back to the Fibre department where I feel safe and secure, I'm already growing. It's a good feeling.
Anyway, I started writing this and completely lost my train of thought. It's time I got back to my homework (sketching and reading, ooh) and downloading Lisa Loeb MP3's. I'm really disappointed in myself that I gave away that cd so many years ago, but the fact that I remember every single word makes up for it. I love how music lingers in the back of your mind for years.
