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i've been hanging around this town for way way way way too long...
way way way too long...
although i just got back from a nice weekend away.
so i guess i can't complain, eh
i went camping, with a large bunch of family. everyone was there! all my cousins, all my aunts and uncles and OMA, my dad's whole family. it was fun.
we had great weather, including the thunderstorm this morning...it ranged from wearing three sweaters friday night to hitting the beach for a nice cool swim this afternoon--it got pretty hot and sticky today.
it's now raining.
i had my first homework assignment due in french class friday and i didn't do it properly, i'm still having troubles finishing it. i'm really not sure how to go about finishing it either. i'm just starting off the year on the right foot, that's for sure! hehe
we got a drummer WOOHOO for friday night
so i haven't been blogging lately, because i haven't had anything to blog about. i've also been crazy busy, but hearing about my busy-ness over and over again is not interesting, so i won't bore or annoy you with the details.
i did learn something interesting though, last week: i was in sculpture class, thinking about how to do a project, working on a different project, when paul, my sculpture teacher, asked me if i use my brain a lot. i was a little offended...until i realized he meant, in my work. i don't use my brain a lot when i do art... (i don't often use my brain at all) but seriously, there are other artists out there who also don't use their brains. conceptual aspect is not as important as, say, PROCESS, PROGRESS, and FINISHED PRODUCT. they just take their materials and go. this is sometimes even brainless work: putting colour there because IT LOOKS GOOD. i am cutting it into this shape because I LIKE how it looks. i took this picture and developed it to this size because i wanted it this size. i do not have a reason for painting this red circle, besides the fact that i had some red paint and i wanted to try out a new paintbrush. later on, of course, i can decide whether i can tie the work into an idea and make it 'legitimate'...or if i can just leave it the way it is. even untitled.
what a relief! after two long years of wondering what was wrong with me...am i lazy for not wanting to write down every single detail of my art projects? for not knowing exactly why i was doing something? am i not cut out to be an artist!?!?! why don't i have any crazy weird ideas about how the world should be!? it's true, being aware of the world around me and awake and stuff like that would be key---inspirational possibilities, not to mention the fact that it's just a good idea to stay on top of things.
the one problem here is that i actually need technical skills, then. like, painting skills, photo skills, sculpture skills...that'd be handy.