The home stretch.
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icarusStick figures.
Yes. I redid my complex series of portraits.
My final art project was bathroom signs.
I had them standing on their heads, doing cartwheels, the splits -- then the male and female figures traded places in each other's signs.
At 11:30 at night, after hours upon hours of working out the concept, carefully selecting the shell game of colours, two hours of actual painting per sign, I realised:
I'm painting stick figures. For my final project, the one where you're supposed to show off all you've learned in ART 205. Stick. Figures.
I laughed my head off.
But the truth was that to project the concept of the difference between men and women is simply the visual cues, surface details, I had to strip all but the subject matter - those visual cues.
I love them.
When I laid them out, worried as hell, I saw my teacher's eyes light up.
"That's different," he said.
He told me that art isn't about the complexity of the image, but how effectively and appropriately you use the basic elements of line, color, composition, texture. He said that my reworked final project was much more effective than what I had originally.
I got my final grade in this class.
I won't brag. All I'll do is grin from ear to ear.
Yeah. I did good. *Whew.*
Tomorrow: One paper on Sherman Alexie.
Next: Thursday - writing portfolio due. One poetry paper, flesh out my second short story, one description of a fiction/poetry reading. Fortunately, it appears all my poems are done (thank you, Percy Weasley, for my villanelle). Xerox 10 pages from journal. Memorize Jabberwocky.
It's World Lit that's killing me right now. That's where I'm struggling. I have two overdue papers (one from when I was trying to do too much work/school/everything-wise, another - er - I just couldn't find anything on the subject, threw up my hands and ran screaming into the street). Then I have the main research paper due. I have the short paper due tomorrow. And I need the extra credit project if I'm going to make up for some of the stuff that's late.
I'm going to be doing nothing but research papers and writing from Wednesday through Monday.
Fuck.
Fortunately, after Thursday it's the only class I have left, so I can really focus on it. But doing the math, if I don't do extra credit and get everything in, I'll be hard-pressed to make a B in this, due to the late work. I've fallen apart in this class, although I'm doing well in the others.
So...
Tonight: crank out the description of a poetry reading and add part II to the short story. Put poems in a file and print. Memorize Jabberwocky.
Wednesday: research and write paper on Sherman Alexie villanelle. Compare with 'Do Not Go Gently Into This Good Night.'
Thursday: write literary dissection of poem "Autopsy of a Poem", xerox 10 pages from my journal, xerox my 140 lines of hand-written fiction/poetry (weird combo - Life and Liberation of Guru Padmasambhava, The Illiad, Yeats, Harry Potter, and the Lord of the Rings). Practice Jabberwocky. Finish Heart of Darkness paper.
Friday - Saturday: Research and write Spirituality and Myths in World Lit research paper.
Sunday: Research and write Bone People paper.
Monday: Research and write Extra Credit paper. Turn in all papers.
Tuesday: Overflow day for papers. Recite Jabberwocky.
Wednesday: Potluck for World Lit.
December 17th: Collapse. Go see Lord of the Rings.
Yes. I redid my complex series of portraits.
My final art project was bathroom signs.
I had them standing on their heads, doing cartwheels, the splits -- then the male and female figures traded places in each other's signs.
At 11:30 at night, after hours upon hours of working out the concept, carefully selecting the shell game of colours, two hours of actual painting per sign, I realised:
I'm painting stick figures. For my final project, the one where you're supposed to show off all you've learned in ART 205. Stick. Figures.
I laughed my head off.
But the truth was that to project the concept of the difference between men and women is simply the visual cues, surface details, I had to strip all but the subject matter - those visual cues.
I love them.
When I laid them out, worried as hell, I saw my teacher's eyes light up.
"That's different," he said.
He told me that art isn't about the complexity of the image, but how effectively and appropriately you use the basic elements of line, color, composition, texture. He said that my reworked final project was much more effective than what I had originally.
I got my final grade in this class.
I won't brag. All I'll do is grin from ear to ear.
Yeah. I did good. *Whew.*
Tomorrow: One paper on Sherman Alexie.
Next: Thursday - writing portfolio due. One poetry paper, flesh out my second short story, one description of a fiction/poetry reading. Fortunately, it appears all my poems are done (thank you, Percy Weasley, for my villanelle). Xerox 10 pages from journal. Memorize Jabberwocky.
It's World Lit that's killing me right now. That's where I'm struggling. I have two overdue papers (one from when I was trying to do too much work/school/everything-wise, another - er - I just couldn't find anything on the subject, threw up my hands and ran screaming into the street). Then I have the main research paper due. I have the short paper due tomorrow. And I need the extra credit project if I'm going to make up for some of the stuff that's late.
I'm going to be doing nothing but research papers and writing from Wednesday through Monday.
Fuck.
Fortunately, after Thursday it's the only class I have left, so I can really focus on it. But doing the math, if I don't do extra credit and get everything in, I'll be hard-pressed to make a B in this, due to the late work. I've fallen apart in this class, although I'm doing well in the others.
So...
Tonight: crank out the description of a poetry reading and add part II to the short story. Put poems in a file and print. Memorize Jabberwocky.
Wednesday: research and write paper on Sherman Alexie villanelle. Compare with 'Do Not Go Gently Into This Good Night.'
Thursday: write literary dissection of poem "Autopsy of a Poem", xerox 10 pages from my journal, xerox my 140 lines of hand-written fiction/poetry (weird combo - Life and Liberation of Guru Padmasambhava, The Illiad, Yeats, Harry Potter, and the Lord of the Rings). Practice Jabberwocky. Finish Heart of Darkness paper.
Friday - Saturday: Research and write Spirituality and Myths in World Lit research paper.
Sunday: Research and write Bone People paper.
Monday: Research and write Extra Credit paper. Turn in all papers.
Tuesday: Overflow day for papers. Recite Jabberwocky.
Wednesday: Potluck for World Lit.
December 17th: Collapse. Go see Lord of the Rings.
