Out of all of the faculty presentations my favorite was Jimmy van Luu’s. Out of the work that he previewed my top two favorites were The Man on the Ninth Letter vol. 7 no. 2 and vol. 8 no. 1. He mentioned in his presentation that wanted to reimagine the book, he aimed to question the nature of the book itself. Also fieldwork (a catalog for a museum) was really interesting because he had a book within a book and had images that would match up with each other challenging the reader to think outside of the box.
I really enjoyed the simplicity of his work with very clean lines but his work was at the same time complex when it forced the reader to turn the book sideways with text in different directions or books within books. Images turning and out of order.
At the end everyone was talking about pet peeves and he began talking about how annoying it is when someone says “I’m not creative right now”, he said that creativity does not strike like a lightning bolt; being an artist is hard and a 24 hr job.