I can’t believe midterm crits start tomorrow...where is the semester going? I’m really excited to see everyone’s work, since I know we’ve all been playing with our initial ideas to the point where I’m not sure what most of us are working on or thinking about anymore. Personally, my work has also evolved a lot since the last time I posted. The giant sphere/bubble I was so excited to build was never carried out as I had envisioned. It was a little difficult at first to not see that as a failure, but I’ve realized that sometimes the process is just as important, if not more than, the “final” product idea. You can’t always decide, “ok this is what I’m going to do and now I’m going to do it”, because what happens along the way can say so much. Funny enough, this whole nonlinear approach to art ties in perfectly with the personal concept of the bubble I’ve been playing with. I still think it’s important to have goals, but those goals shouldn’t detract from the experience of making, in and of itself. The idea of “what it could/will be” can often be distracting, causing me to forget to pause and think about “what it is.” The work I’ll be presenting does express, I hope, the issues I’ve been thinking about, even if it’s nowhere near what I expected to present.

Here’s a photograph from a larger series I’ll be presenting for the midterm, along with two (or maybe three?) short films.