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It's been so long since I last wrote. Too long. In fact, I haven't even written since returning to MICA. I felt like that it would be startling to be back here. But really, the shock and strangeness of it all only lasted less than a week. The Netherlands seems so distanced from me; at times it doesn't even feel like it happened. But I know it
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This makes it difficult for me to attempt to give you any advice, because I am fretting over pretty much the exact same things. My dad really wants me to go to grad school, but I really don't want to go. I don't even know what I'd go for; teaching certification maybe, but I kind of want to try to find an interesting real job before I go that road, if I go that road. I want to make a difference in some way/shape/form, but I also want to discover the best way for me to do that. Making a difference isn't a cookie-cutter thing, you kind of have to make up your own.
And then there's the part where I'm finding it difficult to remember WHY I'm making art. What is it accomplishing? Where is it going? I still enjoy the making, but after it's finished I can never remember why I began in the first place.
Blah.
Well, congratulations on the scholarship either way, I think you deserve it. And I think/hope we'll figure out what we're doing soon. Or at the very least figure out what we can do to help ourselves figure out what we're doing.
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