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I am sitting in my studio!
18' by 19' by 13' cube. one door. four lights. no windows. 9 months.
I am painting each wall a different shade of electric-sunshine-sewage yellow-green chartreuse.
one wall down, and already it looks much much better in here.
I was so anxious that day of studio assignments that I couldn't do much
why did the room feel so strange and cut-throat. no one could stop talking, all self-interest
but when 16 hands raised for the 16 rooms in UBS everyone cheered and sighed a huge breath
just glad that worked out. phew.
gender is definitely the new factor, popping up all over the place.
I scope out rooms when I walk in- john cage class is almost all boys, history of science and technology less so, but still skewed
mostly men talk.
the art majors sit mostly segrated, and despite the fact that 2/3 of the seniors in the department are girls, more than half of the kids who asked to be in UBS, to have a giant space, are boys. I am thinking all the time: what do these disparities say about how we are raised in to our genders?
Like I thought about all summer, my house and my studio are emmerging as entirely separate, beautiful, challenging places...and I guess also the circus is a third. three very separate, optimistic, exciting parts of life.
18' by 19' by 13' cube. one door. four lights. no windows. 9 months.
I am painting each wall a different shade of electric-sunshine-sewage yellow-green chartreuse.
one wall down, and already it looks much much better in here.
I was so anxious that day of studio assignments that I couldn't do much
why did the room feel so strange and cut-throat. no one could stop talking, all self-interest
but when 16 hands raised for the 16 rooms in UBS everyone cheered and sighed a huge breath
just glad that worked out. phew.
gender is definitely the new factor, popping up all over the place.
I scope out rooms when I walk in- john cage class is almost all boys, history of science and technology less so, but still skewed
mostly men talk.
the art majors sit mostly segrated, and despite the fact that 2/3 of the seniors in the department are girls, more than half of the kids who asked to be in UBS, to have a giant space, are boys. I am thinking all the time: what do these disparities say about how we are raised in to our genders?
Like I thought about all summer, my house and my studio are emmerging as entirely separate, beautiful, challenging places...and I guess also the circus is a third. three very separate, optimistic, exciting parts of life.