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Midterm Projects

October 25, 2011

Life is crazy. I don’t have midterms. Just projects. Multiple projects for each of my 4 current classes. What is food? Sleep? Hah!

Nah, actually, I’m doing pretty well on sleep thanks to my anti-anxiety medication. It’s made my life so much better as well. I’m so much more attentive, relaxed and productive with my SSRI prescription and I can’t imagine why I didn’t try them sooner.

Lately I’ve been inspired by the figure in my artwork for my printmaking class. Printmaking is an entirely new technique for me, but so far I’m really enjoying it. The assignments as far as content are completely open to whatever we want to do other than what technique we should be using. I was a struggle at first coming up with a concept to work with, but I finally decided to work with ‘identity.’ I’ve been working on a series of self-portraits somewhat abstracted so it may or may not be me. The ideas are still a bit rough, but an example of a diptych I printed are hardground etchings of my hair.

No images yet, but perhaps I’ll post some later. I’m trying to get this concept to carry over to my Image Studio class as well, but they’re such different techniques, I’m having some difficulty. Oh well, it’s something to ponder through the second part of the semester…

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