Short Week

Ideally, I'd love to start this off with a grand show but I've been out of town the past two weeks and I'm leaving today for the weekend, so my first week is really lackluster. But with expectations so low, I can only go up, right? I did have a few things I wanted to put up that I've done recently but my scanner is not cooperating. Whether you believe me or not, I will have something for my next week considering I have another 3 weeks to produce work and then get it online for show.

I will put up a few things at the end of the post so people who aren't familiar with my work can get a taste. For those of you who have seen it, it'll be nothing new.

My goal with this blog is to have a public space to show work, discuss ideas with the other three and anyone who comments and just have a place to put thoughts down. I've wrestled with the idea of having a blog for a long time and the only thing that has stopped me is my own insecurity. If I knew there was an audience, I'd do it in a minute but I'm always afraid as coming off as self-centered or self-righteous while discussing things. Here the focus is not always on me and I've also found these three often raise my confidence and force me to do things I may not do on my own. So during my next week, I'll be posting work, ideas I'm kicking around, and most likely one or two posts of just observations. I always have opinions on things that never see the light of day because there's no place for them. Now there is.

Since graduating college a little over a month ago, the idea of identity has been heavy in my mind. For four years, you build yourself into someone, especially at the school the four of us attend and at the end of the four years, you're out. I became very used to the idea of who I was in college and enjoyed it very much. Now I need to rebuild that. I'll always have my friends and when I visit school it'll most likely be similar to when I was there, but I need to reinvent myself. It's incredibly daunting, exciting, frightening, and confusing at the same time. So hopefully I can work out some of these things through my work. Any thoughts on this, even if it's to call me a whiny, immature jerk, comment away.