The last month or so of the semester was exhausting. It is sad to say, but I don’t have new art to show. The last month was spent entirely on writing my thesis rough draft. With that said, I am 75% done with Graduate School.

Woohoo.

It’s a very unenthusiastic “woohoo,” because I still feel like I’m recovering. I’ve been on break for a week already and I’ve mostly spent it on resting and organizing. I’m spending the break absorbing feedback, sketching and reading. I’ll also print some projects for people and and get some art ready for some 2010 shows starting up next month. It seems like whenever I just want to “be done” with art, I get sucked into shows and projects. I’m glad for this,  it keeps me going and reminds me that there’s a life outside of graduate school.

I also wanted to make a public thank you. This past week I received an anonymous check meant to supplement my art making. I am immensely grateful for this extremely generous gift and plan to use it for my thesis work next semester. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you (thousand times over).

The next few weeks, I’m going to update and organize the website/blog. I’m getting a camera for Christmas, which means I can re-shoot recent work that didn’t photograph well the first time around.

And to end this post, here’s some books I’ve been using towards my thesis draft:

Cindy Sherman Retrospective Mirror Images

Kiki Smith Jack Zipes When Dreams Comes True

Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment

And books that I read for fun… or try to, because I start them on vacation and then take four months off to do school. This winter break I plan on finishing these books:

Katherine Dunn Geek Love Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Italo Calvino Cosmicomics


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i bought several art books for my kids and they loved it _

Titanium Earrings : added these pithy words on Oct 31 10 at 9:34 am

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