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geep-zah!
as of tomorrow i do not have a studio at pica and thus i go back to being an art student more than an artist. being talked to and respected to some extent as an artist was a million times amazing and exciting, i will fight to be an artist more than an art student again. come mid june i will have FINISHED with this student business! well at least until such time as my insatiable hunger for learning takes ahold and i start something else... and so i will dive into a life of searching for studio space, applying for interstate residencies, grant applications, exhibition program applications and of being knocked back alot i am sure. being an artist = resilience. to be un-resilient one must simply give up i can only assume!
mid june is also the time i will be FINISHED with 211 edinboro st, joondanna 6060. living with saffron and matt, the cupcake baking, jazz singing dragon and the calm as an aged golden retriever, rockstar-esque (is that how esk is spelled?!) sage, finally has an end date. it has been wonderful and horrible, regularly inspring and life-changing but almost constantly frustrating, all terms which fittingly describe my time at ecu also. it is so satisfyingly apt that they end at the same time. everything will change, i am very excited! i will go to albany, i will live with my mum for 1.5 months, the longest amound of time in 3 years. i will work work work. and THEN!
i will go to europe! i have my ticket, it is for 6 weeks. i aim to take a million photos. to write and write and write. to collect ideas and understandings. to learn of history and people and places. to travel with God as my drug of choice. to be like Jesus as much as i can. to enjoy being 22, in europe, with an arts degree to my name and no real clue as to what i am going to do next.
and then i come back and i figure it out. new house, new housemates, new job, new art.
life is exciting. i am so so ridiculously blessed. my God is mind blowing. my boy is a genius, wonderful in everyway. my friends are so patient and creative and inspiring. my family are AWESOME!
also, last week i cooked two things! and they were two things i have never cooked before, i'm finally starting to believe that i CAN be functional and that it's okay and even kinda cool to have some gender stereotype fun! i am experimenting with lots of new ways of being functional, and it is strangely exhilerating (getting to places not just on time, but early. paying bills on time. replying to emails promptly...+ much much more!)...
thats my whole life i think, well ish... in summary !!!! YEW! this year is awesome excitement!
as of tomorrow i do not have a studio at pica and thus i go back to being an art student more than an artist. being talked to and respected to some extent as an artist was a million times amazing and exciting, i will fight to be an artist more than an art student again. come mid june i will have FINISHED with this student business! well at least until such time as my insatiable hunger for learning takes ahold and i start something else... and so i will dive into a life of searching for studio space, applying for interstate residencies, grant applications, exhibition program applications and of being knocked back alot i am sure. being an artist = resilience. to be un-resilient one must simply give up i can only assume!
mid june is also the time i will be FINISHED with 211 edinboro st, joondanna 6060. living with saffron and matt, the cupcake baking, jazz singing dragon and the calm as an aged golden retriever, rockstar-esque (is that how esk is spelled?!) sage, finally has an end date. it has been wonderful and horrible, regularly inspring and life-changing but almost constantly frustrating, all terms which fittingly describe my time at ecu also. it is so satisfyingly apt that they end at the same time. everything will change, i am very excited! i will go to albany, i will live with my mum for 1.5 months, the longest amound of time in 3 years. i will work work work. and THEN!
i will go to europe! i have my ticket, it is for 6 weeks. i aim to take a million photos. to write and write and write. to collect ideas and understandings. to learn of history and people and places. to travel with God as my drug of choice. to be like Jesus as much as i can. to enjoy being 22, in europe, with an arts degree to my name and no real clue as to what i am going to do next.
and then i come back and i figure it out. new house, new housemates, new job, new art.
life is exciting. i am so so ridiculously blessed. my God is mind blowing. my boy is a genius, wonderful in everyway. my friends are so patient and creative and inspiring. my family are AWESOME!
also, last week i cooked two things! and they were two things i have never cooked before, i'm finally starting to believe that i CAN be functional and that it's okay and even kinda cool to have some gender stereotype fun! i am experimenting with lots of new ways of being functional, and it is strangely exhilerating (getting to places not just on time, but early. paying bills on time. replying to emails promptly...+ much much more!)...
thats my whole life i think, well ish... in summary !!!! YEW! this year is awesome excitement!