After hearing from the faculty I realized that it is probably going to be really important for me to choose a medium I like and actually get really good at it. As of right now, I am an art major so that I can try literally every type of art form, but I am majorly starting to feel like a jack of all trades, master of none. All of Hollis’ drawings were so detailed and HUGE but then some small ones with ridiculous detail like straight up I felt like a tiny speck of sand looking at those drawings and I really want something I create one day to make someone feel that way. I really enjoyed hearing Bill talk about his photogrpahy, paired with his general tone of voice and way of speaking he made photography sound like therapy. Aside from when he was shooting constantly working for Forbes and stuff but the pictures where he takes long exposures of water flowing over rocks. That felt like therapy for sure. Tuan’s whole thing was really cool to me as well because he kind of just tries anything someone asks him to do. He talked about so many different things he’s done for people and things I thought it was really cool.
My five year plan is a little ridiculous but I’m gonna give it to you. Hopefully I will be graduating in spring of 2017. Until then I am planning on making a ton of mugs and ashtrays and anything I can think of, then I’m packing all of that stuff up with my puppies and we’re going to live all over the US in a VW bus for about a year- year and a half. In that time I plan on trying to meet artists all over the country, as well as WWOOFing so I can learn how to grow my own foods. I plan on selling my art at the local farmers markets wherever I am staying, and possibly find jobs interning with artists I meet on the road. When I get back I plan on really getting into sculpting big pieces, something I hope to learn while I am traveling, and hopefully at some point in there start really feeling happy with myself and my life. I was raised in a very loving but materialistic home, therefore I am not focused on making money for happiness, I am focused on making life and art for happiness.