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So.
I wasn't accepted in Grad School. Even though I wanted to go, I must say that I am not too disappointed as well. I love Art History and I love studying, but to be honest, I am not much of a scholars. I do not enjoy endless hours of deliberation on specific topics and I hate the elitism that sometimes comes out of scholarly people. I prefer leaning for my own pleasure and even though I would like to have the recognition for my knowledge, I can survive without it.
The University has offered me to take classes. Mostly they felt that my application was rather strong, but that I didn't have enough credits in Art History. Which is totally true anyway. I was hoping that having been a research assistant to one of my teacher and me having worked in an art gallery for 2 years, would have been enough to tip the balance in my favor. But I guess not.
So, they have offered me to take classes to acquire more credits and then be able to enter the program.
I don't think I will do it.
To be honest, once again, I wanted my Master degree solely for the security it would provide me. It would open much more doors to myself and would give me more choices and possibilities career wise.
Career. Yes, that is just the point. I think what I really want to do is not be a curator or a scholar or anything like that (although I would DEFINITELY would like to have curatorial projects in the future) all I want to do for now is PAINT.
I feel that this could be a good opportunity.
So for one year I will try.
When I come back to Canada, in the Fall, I will set up my online shop (I guess on Etsy, it seems to be the place these days....at least for the beginning) and see how things go. With the money I make now, I should be able to live okay with only a part-time job.
That would give me plenty of time to paint and write little stories.
I hope I can offer good quality prints for a decent price in the near future and I hope people will like my art enough to buy one...maybe. Mostly I just hope the will like it.
I feel strangely confident and insecure about the whole thing. It's rather thrilling.
(one of my favorite pair of earrings)
I wasn't accepted in Grad School. Even though I wanted to go, I must say that I am not too disappointed as well. I love Art History and I love studying, but to be honest, I am not much of a scholars. I do not enjoy endless hours of deliberation on specific topics and I hate the elitism that sometimes comes out of scholarly people. I prefer leaning for my own pleasure and even though I would like to have the recognition for my knowledge, I can survive without it.
The University has offered me to take classes. Mostly they felt that my application was rather strong, but that I didn't have enough credits in Art History. Which is totally true anyway. I was hoping that having been a research assistant to one of my teacher and me having worked in an art gallery for 2 years, would have been enough to tip the balance in my favor. But I guess not.
So, they have offered me to take classes to acquire more credits and then be able to enter the program.
I don't think I will do it.
To be honest, once again, I wanted my Master degree solely for the security it would provide me. It would open much more doors to myself and would give me more choices and possibilities career wise.
Career. Yes, that is just the point. I think what I really want to do is not be a curator or a scholar or anything like that (although I would DEFINITELY would like to have curatorial projects in the future) all I want to do for now is PAINT.
I feel that this could be a good opportunity.
So for one year I will try.
When I come back to Canada, in the Fall, I will set up my online shop (I guess on Etsy, it seems to be the place these days....at least for the beginning) and see how things go. With the money I make now, I should be able to live okay with only a part-time job.
That would give me plenty of time to paint and write little stories.
I hope I can offer good quality prints for a decent price in the near future and I hope people will like my art enough to buy one...maybe. Mostly I just hope the will like it.
I feel strangely confident and insecure about the whole thing. It's rather thrilling.
(one of my favorite pair of earrings)