Being Told You Suck

There is nothing like starting out your morning right with your project started for a studio class.  There is also nothing like arriving to class to be told that it looks like a craft.  (Which translates too, this is crap.)  Now okay, I'll admit that my structure was made with popsicle sticks and hot glue.  But the professor made it seem as if it would be left that way.  As in my project was the structure and thats it.  Its going to be covered in fabric, no one will be able to tell.  Bleh.

I know my professor was trying to help me out, so nothing against her, but its such a down feeling.  The assignment is to make a fibers project out of a lyric/line of a poem we choose.  I chose "In you I taste God" and I'm relating it to how death has brought me both closer and farther away at times from Him.  I wanted to make something like a yartzit candle holder where the flame inside the candle will illuminate the fabrics.  But I'm having serious problems with the concept and bringing it through.

Fibers is difficult.  My professor kept asking me what seemed like annoying questions about every little piece of material used in the piece.  I just wanted to say, why does it matter!  Come on its for construction, no one will see it!  But thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense that she wants me to think about the materials I use.  I mean with fibers the choice of materials tells the audience what its about.  Every little choice like that counts towards the concept of the piece.  But I will stand by though that its definitely frustrating.

Maybe I should choose a different lyric.  Bleh.  We'll see after I work on it more.

Updated Paintings Pt. II

 So from my last post I've worked a lot on the three paintings.

New Painting Studio

The photo to my left is what drives me to insanity, 日本語の宿題。(Japanese homework.)  En serio this stuff is intense.  I will stand though that its not as tough as my Spanish translating training, yet.

So let's just say after a week of non stop Japanese projects, quizzes, and tests (might I add I have some due tonight too...) I needed to do something else.  So the following paintings are what came out tonight.

Heads up the music was Smashing Pumpkins opening with Ava Adore.  I worked on this piece first, then the next and last one.

The one to the left is supposed to have a mouth, that's not part of the painting.  I'm not making a statement about censorship.  Just trying to fix a mouth I messed up on.

This one has changed quite a bit throughout the process.  First it was more warm tones, then a purple background with red hair, now its this.  If I find photos of it before I will post them, but I'm not sure where they are....

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