I’m starting to back my artwork on board today. I took some quick photobooth pics to document the composition on the floating collage pieces. I miss having a reliable camera. I’m going to photograph these later with a school camera when all the work is up in the critique space.
I have 6 of these printed: one left alone and another collage (below), which I guess I used two for the final product. I’m working towards new approaches for the rest. It’s my twin sister, which I’m sure she just loves that I have her infested with bees below.
This piece has been in the planning stages since summer. I haven’t gotten around to it, but every time somebody visits my studio, they mistake it for one of the finished pieces. I’m not sure what to take of that, but I’ve been told to include this with the rest of the work. I need to finish it though. Maybe draw it on the wall? I’m not sure. I got a weird comment that the unfinished aspect of the work is what makes it successful, but I don’t think it refers to presenting the piece “as is” so I’m left to figure out a new way to complete it.
That’s me all disheveled and tired looking, which is how I roll 98% of my time at school. I don’t usually put pictures of myself up, but I figure this one is for the folks. When I first toured MCAD, my mother was appalled at the undergraduate students’ general appearance. Grandma glasses, leopard print leggings as pants, unwashed hair, and ill-fitted thrift store wear offended her fashion sensibilities. “Why are these girls looking ugly on purpose?” she asked me loudly enough so that the surrounding perpetrators would overhear. “I don’t know Mom, it’s an art school thing,” I told her in order to get her off my back. Then she grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me, repeated the entire time, “DON’T EVER CHANGE MEGAN! DON’T COME HOME LOOKING HOMELESS AND DIRTY! I MEAN IT!”
Oh the memories. Maybe I’ll find an obnoxious outfit at a thrift store to wear the first day home for Christmas break. Our secret, shhhhh.
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Emily Jungden Walters added these pithy words on Nov 05 09 at 7:05 amI like the piece with yours sister and the bees. I wish I could see some of this in person!
P.S. I wear leggings as pants all the time, and yes it does draw odd stares.
Matt Frau added these pithy words on Dec 04 09 at 1:56 pmThere’s something about the phrase “don’t come home looking homeless” that delights me beyond measure.
