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blustockingI should be re-writing my artist's statement and adding some things to my resume for that bullshit class tomorrow (Professional Activities Seminar, or as a friend and I like to call it, Pretentious Asshole Seminar. I apologize if I've mentioned that before, I can't remember the last time I was here.)
It's finally cooler outside, which is nothing less than divine. I have a solo show at the Union in November. It's about New Orleans and will be a sort of installation with painting, photo, sculpture, and stencil. I've been working on the downtown mural (Aaron Douglas Mural Project) quite a bit and it's really fun. My photo class is interesting (it's about different processes) but I've come to a debilitating realization, one that I think I knew but had purposefully ignored: I can't absorb technical information. This makes it hard to be a photographer, this going on instinct. This is why I could never teach a class. I learn something, and it immediately begins to fog over, oddly enough like exposed paper. Sucks, but I will deal with it and if I need to teach while in grad school, I'm comfortable with painting.
Ah fuck it, I should be working.
It's finally cooler outside, which is nothing less than divine. I have a solo show at the Union in November. It's about New Orleans and will be a sort of installation with painting, photo, sculpture, and stencil. I've been working on the downtown mural (Aaron Douglas Mural Project) quite a bit and it's really fun. My photo class is interesting (it's about different processes) but I've come to a debilitating realization, one that I think I knew but had purposefully ignored: I can't absorb technical information. This makes it hard to be a photographer, this going on instinct. This is why I could never teach a class. I learn something, and it immediately begins to fog over, oddly enough like exposed paper. Sucks, but I will deal with it and if I need to teach while in grad school, I'm comfortable with painting.
Ah fuck it, I should be working.
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Date: 2007-09-11 12:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-13 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-13 01:15 am (UTC)Do you think that I remember all the intricacies of phtography? Nuh huh.
I do not remember fuck all about alternative processes and I have to look up my equations over and over when it comes to large format. You need to remember the basics of operating a camera and you need to know your way around the lab but anything beyond that depends only upon a well documented and indexed library of technical information and as a teacher, you always prep your classes so that you know what in fuck you are talking about. I mean, I'm a half retarded, brain fried, bottomless memory shithole. I can't remember fuck all about anything at all, most days. It sucks and makes people rip their hair out. you cannot be any worse than me.
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Date: 2007-10-13 11:05 pm (UTC)I just get frustrated because I look at my prof and he can ramble on and on about all this technical crap and the chemistry and I have trouble with the most basic things.
I'm slow and I've accepted this. :)
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Date: 2007-10-13 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-13 11:50 pm (UTC)