how is it?
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How’s art school Beth?
You know, the place you’ve been waiting months and months and months to attend?
Is it wonderful and amazing and inspiring and awesome?
How do you like it…?
Do you like it…?
Hrrmmm… Ummm… Well… How to go about this…
Ah…. I guess…
Nope.
It sucks.
First year sucks.
I knew that going into it, but MAN does it ever suck.
I mean, I’m doing pretty well… Actually, very well. Very, very well indeed.
But… Well, here’s an anecdote for you:
I am 24 years old.
My wittle, adorable, baby brother is 17 (though we like to tell him he’s 13).
That’s a 7 year age difference.
He just entered college this year.
So did all the people who I am am in first year with at OCAD, who are all also 17.
We had this Liberal Studies class on primitivism and exoticism and eroticism - in other words, a lot of images of nudes - but stylized ones, like Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Some boys sitting behind me giggled their way through the lecture. It was as though they had never seen a naked person before. And then I realized that there was a good possibility that they never had.
How exactly are these kids going to handle life drawing if they can’t even handle cartoon boobies?