Animated Mandarin
I’m currently in our video and animation module, and want to go ahead and share my first assignment, so I’m going to break from chronological order. As this...
Cut leaves
I have a thriving African ficus with really meaty thick leaves, with large visible epidermal cells. In a previous project, I wanted to model leaf vein...
Bringing the briefs together
After those three weeks of quick-fire briefs, we were given a month to develop something further, inspired from the briefs. Perhaps breaking from...
Inspiration from the wider world
The week three brief was to make work based on inspiration from the wider world — an issue or topic that you care about. I care about our attitudes towards...
Another attempt at painting
The next brief, also done over one week, was to create a series of responses to a piece of art, or music, such that they might have a dialogue with the...
Inspiration from daily life
Our first brief was to make note of things we were interested in in our day-to-day, and to also make note of why we were interested in these. Then, armed...
Getting back into it
Our first day back in class was gentle, which is the general tone of my course, which is why I love it so much. They did trick us a little though: they asked...
Welcome back to Year 2
The second year of my arts program has been underway for a month now, how time gets out of one’s grasp. While I process the previous weeks for you, here’s...
The coming together
From that foggy and unclear place, I took small steps. I tried ideas with the heart of someone just throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. At...
Step by step
If I don’t write for a while, it’s because I’m in the middle of something and I don’t really know what’s going on. And then, before I know it, the deadline...
And now we begin
we’ve entered a new stage in our program, where we individually bring our own themes and our own choices. I can see they are trying to create safe spaces for...
Snapshots
We had an intense interlude with photography, giving classmates who hadn’t given much time to the medium in the past to test it out. I’ve had moments with...
Third time is not the charm
We’d been working on videos with the cadence of one per week, where the brief would get incrementally harder each time. The third and final video was to be a...
Time in Video
My next module in video started out easy enough, with a survey of different video artists. I really gravitated to works that told a story, especially a...
In between days
In the haze of finishing the painting module, I went to see some art, a Brian McGuire exhibition. After the exercise of identifying what my taste in painting...
When it's done
Mom soaking her feet (acrylics, paper) The feeling that you’re done, that you don’t want to do anymore, that you’re happy to submit as is. I’d hoped the...
Facing my nemesis
The one art medium that has remained mysterious is painting. Colors add a totally new dimension and scarily infinite possibilities to the form, shading and...
Kelp me, I'm falling
Author’s note: Happy new year! … and apologies, a combination of colds and a school essay kept me from finishing this in a timely manner. Yep, I have to...
Solid play
Our next module has been sculpture, and the theme to spark our inspiration is “hidden worlds and imaginary landscapes.” I love this theme. I immediately...
Playing without thinking
Weeks have gone by, and I’m already at the end of our first module. Presentations were last Tuesday, and it was inspiring and humbling. An intermediate...