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It looks like I am a once-a-month-post sort of girl. I think I will be better once school is over in a few weeks, with more time to develop my various electronic personas. If anyone would like to send me a computer, I could quit disappointing my readers. I wouldn’t even bother with the polite protesting. I would get right into the taking that mac off of your hands.
I am writing this in a word document so I can be sneaky about blogging at work. Not that they would probably even care. It is capitalizing and spell-checking everything for me. This computer doesn’t know that blogging is a word.
I had my sculpture critique that I alluded to last post and it went shockingly well. Everyone really liked my work, including the professors. I was happy with how the pieces turned out and have been very excited to be working in other mediums. It has freed up some of my typical ways of working, and I think it has helped my painting processes considerably. Working with materials I don’t usually use caused me to think about expressing the content in my paintings without necessarily relying on my usual visual language. When I paint there is a level of comfort and sometimes that comfort is nice but it is good to challenge myself. This sculpture class has been really great for me, if only because of that reexamination.
This month has been crazy busy with school and work. I saw the Walkmen play. Good show. There have been tons of exhibitions and openings, a couple a week, so I have been busy going to those. The MFA thesis show went up as well. I had a group show at a gallery downtown. It was all of the grad painters, so 10 very different people in one space. It turned out surprisingly well considering my opinion of some of the work. I have a solo show that I have to hang this Sunday that is my “honorable mention” for being a finalist for that cash award I didn’t get. Yep. I thought about calling my show consolation prize but I thought that might come across as bitter. People with money don’t like giving it to bitter people. I didn’t expect to get the award since it is my first year and it usually goes to third years, but I like getting free money.
I went to New Orleans for a week. It was wonderful. I left here and it was snowing and I arrived there and wore shorts. What a world. I had mint juleps on the outside patio at pat o’s and a fabulous dinner at my new favorite restaurant with The Professor on my birthday. The service at the restaurant was the best ever. Besides the food being incredible, they gave us lagniappe compliments of the chef, brought us fresh butter with every round of hot bread, poured our wine whenever it neared the bottom of a glass, the waiter even kissed my hand at the end of the night! I wish I had thought to tell him it was my birthday because I seriously think we could have gotten some sort of free flaming dessert in the deal. That birthday gets many thumbs up.
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